Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Introduction to Narratological Key Concepts, language: English, abstract: Etymologically, narratology is a theory of narrative. Due to the popularization of the term by structuralist critics such as Gerard Genette and Mieke Bal in the 1970s, "the definition of narratology has usually been restricted to structural, or more specifically structuralist, analysis of narrative." But in the 1980s and 1990s, the early structuralist...