AN APPLICATION OF DE BEAUGRANDE AND COLBY’S NARRATIVE MODEL ON CHABON’S GENTILMEN OF THE ROAD
DE BEAUGRANDE AND COLBY’NIN ANLATI MODELININ CHABON’UN GENTILMEN OF THE ROAD ROMANINA UYGULANMASI

Author : Aytemis DEPCİ
Number of pages : 518-524

Abstract

In the present paper, it is attempted to adapt the schema structure created by Robert de Beaugrande and Benjamin Colby regarding story telling rules to Chabon’s narrative in the short novel of Gentlemen of the Road. Adapting Beaugrande and Colby’s scheme to this novel reveals that though Chabon’s narrative has globally structured, it contains inherent structural complexities and, thus, the author is able to astonish the reader with secrets and surprises while fulfilling the greatest fantasy of Jews by creating legendary Jewish characters with swords and a Kingdom ruled by Jews. The author violates reader’s expectations by constructing a traditional tale with a universal structure but in innovative ways. The contribution of the tension of the novel, the form of the work and other aesthetic qualities of the text has been produced a well-built novel coherent with its content which makes the formalist reading of the work convenient.

Keywords

formalism, structuralism, narrative schema structure

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