Narrative Formal System Nick Lacey

1) the use of the first person narrative is a convinient device for 'fantastic' narratives because any bizarre events can be explained as being caused by subjectivity.

2) The undramatised narrator is where an 'outside' agent, who is often omnipotent, gives a description of events, so all characters' thoughts and all occurences can be known.

3) texts that are intended to be alternative must in some way break these 'rules' they therefore tend to exist outside the mainstream.

4) The forms where alternative narrative texts have been produced, with some regularity, are literature, therate and film.

5) one of the basic definitions of narrative offered at the beginning of chapter 1 was 'it presents information as a connected sequence of events'.