Narrative Theories

Claude Lévis Strauss (1908-2009) was

• an artist

• an architect

• an anthropologist

• an arithmetician

an anthropologist is

• a study of ants and termites

• a study of human societies and cultures

• a study of plots and twists in stories

• a study of algorithms

Claude Lévis Strauss is associated with

• several characters to inform the narrative

• equilibrium

  dis-equilibrium

  new equilibrium

• beginning

  middle

  end

• binary

  opposition

Vladimir Propp (1895-1970) studied

• Law

• Propellors

• Distilling

• Folklore

Propp's narrative theory argued a story should have

• king, queen, princess, pet cat, troll, robber

• fairy godmother, magic carpet, troll, postman, hero, anti - hero

• villain, hero, the helper, princess , donor, dispatcher, false hero

• protagonist, antagonist, fall guy, narrator, ales ego,

Tvetan Todorov ( 1939-2017) narrative theory

• semitiotics

  and

  semantics

• good

  versus

  evil

• equal

  rights

  act

• equilibrium

  dis-equilibrium

  new equilibrium

Roland Barthes' (1915-1980) narrative theories are associated with

proairetic, hermeneutic, semantic, symbolic,

cultural codes

• true

• false

hermeneutics (enigma) could be described as

• interpretation of texts

• hearing words

proairetic could be described as an action code

• true

• False

Semantics is the study of words and their meaning

• False

• True