Narrative time and narrated time

Duration: relationship between discourse time and story time

• Discourse time: Time it takes to read narrative

• Story time: Time that passes in story

Special cases:

• Summary: discourse time < Story time

• Scene: Discourse time = Story time

• Stretch (opposite of summary): Discourse time > Story time

• Ellipsis (sth is left out): Discourse time 0 - story time 1

• Pause (story is not continued but narrator tells sth): Discourse time 1 - Story time 0

Order = chronological or anachronic representation of events

Manipulation of linear orders:

• Prolepsis (flashforward)

• Analepsis (flashback)

• Digression (pause)