Quick search
Go!

STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM OF PROSE GENRES


TAMAR MEBUKE
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF TBILISI, GEORGIA

Issue:

CP, Number 13

Section:

No. 13 (2008)  Editorial

Abstract:

The paper is an attempt to offer a structural-semantic basis for the classification of texts such as the novel, the short story, the tale. The structural distinction of the epic genres is carried out on the basis of five main properties: number of plot lines; the prevailing form of rhetorical mode of discourse; the existence of separately formed free narrative motives; monothematic or polythematic structural units of text; monofunctional or polyfunctional text units. The semantic classification is based on the archetypal meaning of the Solar myths that represent the outer or inner life of the protagonists.

This approach enables us to regard each prose species not as an isolated phenomenon but as a part of a system and to define them according to some general principles. Thе novel is regarded as the most complex of prose genres, combining the others structurally as well as semantically and is characterized by stable properties, such as: a panoramic depiction of events in their interrelation, polyphony and definite types of combination of plot lines.

Keywords:

prose genres, structure, short story, story, tale, short novel, novel.

Code [ID]:

CP200813V00S01A0002 [0002596]


Copyright (c) 1995-2007 University of Bacău