Ukryte, jawne, zaszyfrowane… Retrospekcje w filmie na tle teorii narracji Mieke Bal. Opowieść a retrospekcja
Hidden, Explicit, Encrypted…: Flashbacks in Film Against the Background of Mieke Bal’s Narrative Theory: Story vs. Retroversion

Summary/Abstract: The author examines film retroversions as multi-faceted narrative devices against the background of Mieke Bal’s narratology. She outlines a broad framework for reflection upon flashbacks, which allows her to build a set of various narrative contexts for discovering recollections, memory and history. She then attempts a critical analysis of Bal’s theory, seeking to point out contradictions or inaccuracies in her considerations. Following the Dutch theorist, the author takes her fundamental statement that the narrative system consists of text, story and fabula as a basic premise. The author focuses on the relationship between story and retroversion. She analyses different temporal aspects of story that characterize returns to the past against the background of sequential ordering. Consequently, she combines a classification based on Bal’s divisions with her own research. Additionally, she complements aspects of “stories about the past times” with some of her suggestions (e.g. from retroversion to anticipation, flashbacks vs. inverted chronology, simple/complex and reliable/unreliable retroversion).

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