Narratology is the study of narrative. Duh. ### Narrative and time Narrative is inseparable from time. A good introduction to this idea is [[Gerard Genette]]'s concepts of [[order, duration and frequency]]. [[Paul Ricoeur]] has his three-volume [[Time and Narrative (1983)]] which is all about this. In [[Reading for the Plot - Design and Intention in Narrative (1984)]], [[Peter Brooks]] discusses the relationship between narrative, time and [[plot]]: > Plot as we need and want the term is hence an embracing concept for the design and intention of narrative, a structure for those meanings that are developed through temporal succession, or perhaps better: a structuring operation elicited by, and made necessary by, those meanings that develop through succession and time. (12) This links narrative to the fact that [[your audience encounters your text linearly]].