Mind Map of Narrative

Narrative:

• many theorists use genre as point to describe how we describe and catargorize media from the Hyper-Reality theory to Roland Barthes.

Roland Bathes
Barthes believes that narratives have structures and that there is more than one way to read a text including multiple meanings and connotations. These were classifyed as 'Readerly' and 'Writerly' texts. 'Readerly' being not locating the reader as a site of the production of meaning, but only as the receiver of a fixed, pre-determined, reading. They are thus products rather than productions and thus form the dominant mode of literature under capital. and  'Writerly' being a perpetual present, upon which no consequent language (which would inevitably make it past) can be superimposed; the writerly text is ourselves writing, before the infinite play of the world (the world as function) is traversed, intersected, stopped, plasticized by some singular system (Ideology, Genus, Criticism) which reduces the plurality of entrances, the opening of networks, the infinity of languages. .He also made the theory of the enigma codes which questions the audience e.g Murder Mysteries.


Hyper Reality
Jean Baudrillard's theory differentiates reality from fantasy, a concept that has only been around since media has started. In modern media and times, people cannot help to find fantasy real e.g video games. He also questions how we get our information, e.g how do we know the Gulf War even happened, as we only witnessed it through the media, such is the influence of modern media from the 20th Century onwards.