Action, Story, Discourse

An introductory podcast  to my main book on the theory of narrative, by your friendly Articial Intelligence "Richard Price"

_____. "Action, Story, Discourse." AI podcast on José Angel García Landa's book Acción, Relato, Discurso: Estructura de la ficción narrativa. Online audio. Academia 25 Jan. 2026.*

         https://www.academia.edu/176630/

         2026

 

This is a treatise in literary theory, specifically on narrative theory (or narratology), focusing on narrative texts through an examination of the concepts of existing theories of narrative. It is an advanced examination of narrative structure from the standpoint of semiotics and discourse analysis, with continual attention to the conceptual roots of these phenomena in the history of literary theory and criticism. It is not articulated on the basis of specific commentaries of narrative texts, and it follows a conceptual plan throughout, examining in each of the three sections the elements of narrative action (the narrated world and agents, narrativity, action schemata), and story structure (narrative time, perspective and point of view, narrative aspect, narrative distance). It concludes with an extensive examination of the discursive aspects of narrative: literary pragmatics, fictionality, narrative interaction, narrative voice, narrators and narratees, implied speakers and hearers, and the interactional context of narrative communication between writers and readers.