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Manfred Jahn
Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres

PPP is a collection of tutorials on the theory of literary genres. The documents include exercises and case studies. Together, they print out to around 180 pages.

2021. A Guide to the Theory of Poetry (PDF)

2021. A Guide to the Theory of Drama (PDF)

2021. Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative (PDF)

2021. A Guide to Film Analysis (PDF)

PPP is based on the following genre taxonomy (adapted from Chatman 1990: 115). Highlighted items are clickable.

The following bookmarks are Work in Progress and may not all be clickable. Feel free to try some anyway!

Narratology

Fig. 1. Levels of narrative communication.

2. The narratological framework

Fig. 3. A taxonomy of narrative genres.

2.3. Narrative communication

Fig. 4. Levels of narrative communication (again).

2.4. Narrative Levels

3. Narration, Focalization, and Narrative Situations

Fig. 12. Homodiegetic narrators (Lanser).

4. Action, story analysis, tellability

Fig. 13. Freytag's triangle and Bremond's cycle.

5. Tense, Time, and Narrative Modes

Fig. 14. Joyce's "A Painful Case".

5.3. Narrative Modes

6. Setting and fictional space

7. Characters and Characterization

Fig. 15. WHO characterizes WHOM.

8. Discourses: quoting speech, thought, and writing

9. Case Studies

References

Drama

1. Text and performance

1.6. Schools of drama theory

2. Dramatic Communication

Fig. 1. Levels of dramatic communication.

5. The picture-frame stage

8. Characters and characterization

Fig. 9. Characterization in drama.

References

Addendum: Composing Drama

1. Components of performance

Fig. 1. Components of performance.

Fig. 2. A scale of visual focalizations.

Fig. 3. Stacked worlds.

Film

Poetry

1. Rhythm and meter

2. Rhyme, verse sequence, stanza

3. Semantic analysis of poetry

4. Minima Rhetorica

Manfred Jahn Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres

Manfred Jahn
Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres