GARVEY. James. Characterization in narrative

GARVEY, James (1978). “Characterization in narrative”, in Poetics, 7: 63-78.

Resumo: Current discussions in narrative theory have evoked questions about the relationship of character to plot and about the possibility of structurally describing characterization. An adequate theory of characterization must account for several clear-cut facts of narrative practice, especially those concerning the role of narrator and audience and the ascription of attributes to participants in a story. A distinction is made between two types of attributes: (a) structural attributes, which apply to all characters of all narratives, are described through semantic features; (b) non-structural attributes, which apply variously among characters and narratives, are more appropriately described through attributive propositions. Attributive propositions arise through norms, entailment rules which relate textual details to narrative structure. A full and systematic account of characterization must provide each character with a set of structural attributes, and set of non-structural attributions, as well as an identification and a temporal orientation which indicates any change in attributes.

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