Abstract
THE ANALYSIS OF THE STORY “KARŞILIKLI” BY HALDUN TANER IN THE CONTEXT OF SEYMOUR CHATMAN’S NARRATIVE DIAGRAM
In recent years with the increase of narratological studies, various narrative structures has gained more profound analysis methods. The tendency to make generic/complementary interpretations on literary texts has given its place to the more fragmented, autonomous analysis techniques. For sure, these changes in literary criticism are closely related to the features of literary texts. Because every text brings along its own criticism method. In this way, new practices have been developed to analyze the intricate narrative networks in modern and postmodern texts. Some literary theorists such as Roland Barthes, Gérard Genette, Seymour Chatman, Dorrit Cohn, Peter Brooks, Manfred Jahn have scrutinized differentiated narrative forms/structures and created appropriate analysis methods. In this context, Seymour Chatman’s Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film is one of salient reference books in terms of genuine analysis techniques. Story and Discourse is an interdiciplinary source that reads cinema and literature together, addresses both the reader and the audience at the same time. In this book, Chatman correlates various concepts related to both fields, supports the literary elements with the visual components such as schema and diagram. Thus, he inventively presents an interspecific, wide perspective to the reader/audience. In this article, Haldun Taner’s story “Karşılıklı” that can be described as an “interspecific narrative” because of its structure related to the genres of story, memoir and essay will be analyzed in the context of Chatman’s narrative diagram.
Keywords
Seymour Chatman, narratology, narrative diagram, Haldun Taner, story, text analysis