How did Sri moharana explain the reason behind the missing of the cap?
Answers
Telling stories and listening to them are age -old phenomena. With the learning of speech by the primitive man
and the evolution of language, human being started telling stories, narrating their experiences, expressing their thoughts
and feelings. But story or fiction as a genre of literature is a fairly modern creation. Though stories were used
systematically by the great teachers of the world, like Christ and Buddha, modern fiction is a product of later time.
Modern fiction is different from the older tales in many ways, in form as well as in style and techniques of narration.
The various devices of storytelling are called Narrative Techniques. The study of narrative and narrative techniques as an
autonomous object of analysis emerged in the Twentieth Century. It began with Henry James, in his fictional narratives
and his discussions in the Prefaces to the New York Editions of his novels (1909-10), and developed through the works of
Russian Formalists, the New Critics, the Chicago Neo- Aristotelians, the Structuralist narratologists and post- classical
narratologists like Mary Patricia Martin, James Phelan and Gerard Genette. Most approaches to narrative recognize the
utility of a general division between ‘what’ (the domains of states, existence, characters, and events) and ‘how’
(the domains of techniques, voice, vision, temporality, a point of view etc.)
f View, First Person Narrator, Third Person Narrator
INTRODUCTION
Very often the content in writing gains its importance from the way the writer presents it. Much of the success of
a story or fiction depends on the narrative (dynamics) techniques the writer uses. Narrative techniques broadly refer to all
perceptible and discernible signs of the author’s artistry employed in the narrative. It includes the technique of point of
view, form or structural principles, the method of picturisation and dramatization, setting and characterization,
the art of narration and other various means and elements that consequently make up the workmanship of a writer.
Mark Schorer opines that the form or technique and content are inseparable.
“Or technique is thought of in blunter terms… as the arrangement of events to create plot; or, within the plot, of
suspense and climax; or as the means of revealing character motivation, relationship, and development or the use of point
of view”. (David Lodge, p4)
A technique is the only means by which the writer discovers, explores, develops and conveys his subject and the
meaning thereof and eventually evaluates it. According to Wayne C. Booth: