What is narratology?

Popularized in the 1960s by Roland Barthes and others, narratology is the study of narrative, linguistic or otherwise: myths, legends, novels, comic strips, stained-glass windows, psychological case studies.

It employs methods drawn from structuralism, the study of the relations and functions of the internal elements of cultural phenomena.

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