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Narreme

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The narreme is the basic unit of narrative structure. According to Helmut Bonheim,[1] the concept of narreme was developed three decades earlier by Eugene Dorfman[2] and expanded by Henri Wittmann,[3][4][5] the narreme is to narratology what the sememe is to semantics, the morpheme is to morphology and the phoneme to phonology. However, narremes have yet to be persuasively defined in practice.[citation needed]

In interpretative narratology constrained in a framework of principles and parameters, narration is the projection of a narreme N0, the abstract head of a narrative macrostructure where Nn dominates immediately Nn-1.[incomprehensible][6][a]

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Notes

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  1. ↑ In this author's views, narremes are the constituents of narrative algorithms, a concept that has found applications in game theory and game semantics[7]

References

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  1. ↑ Bonheim, Helmut. 2000. "Shakespeare's narremes." In: Shakespeare Survey 53: Shakespeare and narrative. Edited by Peter Holland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–11.
  2. ↑ Dorfman, Eugùne. 1969. The narreme in the medieval romance epic: An introduction to narrative structures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  3. ↑ Wittmann, Henri. 1974. "Topics in the theory of narrative algorithms." Travaux linguistiques de l'UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă  Trois-RiviĂšres 3.1.
  4. ↑ Wittmann, Henri. 1975. "ThĂ©orie des narrĂšmes et algorithmes narratifs". Poetics 4:1.19-28.
  5. ↑ Tusseau, Jean-Pierre & Henri Wittmann. 1975. "Rùgles de narration dans les chansons de geste et le roman courtois". Folia linguistica 7.401-12.
  6. ↑ Wittmann, Henri. 1995. "La structure de base de la syntaxe narrative dans les contes et lĂ©gendes du crĂ©ole haĂŻtien." PoĂ©tiques et imaginaires: francopolyphonie littĂ©raire des AmĂ©riques. Edited by Pierre Laurette & Hans-George Ruprecht. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 207–218.
  7. ↑ Shivel, Gail. 2009. "World of Warcraft: The Murloc is the Message." SymplokĂȘ 17:1-2.205-213

Bibliography

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  • SchĂ€rfe, Henrik. 2004. CANA: A study in computer-aided narrative analysis. Aalborg University, Dept. of Communication: Ph.D. dissertation.