Fabula

Things happen and are experienced by people in life at given locations in particular time frames. Some of these are of interest to people for a variety of reasons. Such events make up the "fabula", or ground floor level of all literature (or other media as well).

This interest to people aspect (Bremond is big on this I gather (1.p.21 )) reminds me of Fred McGinnis' comment that he discovered at age 12 that "stories have currency" when one of his anecdotes was bandied about the community to his surprise. It was responsible for his entry into journalism, and his unique folksy anecdotal style I gather.

Temp. Bal book notes: 1.

• A product of the imagination (in fiction)(1.p.49 )
• Big name: Roland Barthes - stories have an underlying structure (1.p.11)

• studies assume two things:
  1. correspondence between sentence and text structurally (1.p.12)

  2. correspondence between fictitious fabula and typical logic of life (as a common ground with readers) so useful framework for real life too.(1.p.13)

• Fabulas are made up of fixed objects and changeable processes (/events) which interact.(1.p.14)

• The Events and Actors aspects are the main ones, with time and location being central to the story level more.(1.p.45)

• Watch the relationship of the elements more than their isolated nature (1.p.46)

• Symbolic clustering may or may not coincide with our expectations - deliberately (1.p.46)

• See her last sub section for her sources for constructing this fabula section of her model (1.p.46-47)

Four "Elements" of a Fabula:

• Event
• Actors
• Time
• Location
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