DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2016.v04i08.010

Pages: 889-895

Narratology is a theory of narrative which examines the similarities and differences within different texts. This field has to do with the narrative-specific system of rules governing narrative production and processing is common and universal among people since it exemplifies the structuralist tendency to consider texts as rule-governed ways in which human beings rebuild their universe and it also exemplifies the structuralist ambition to isolate the necessary and optional components of textual types and to characterize the modes of their articulation. Gérard Genette presents a model to describe and analyze structures and patterns that create literary texts. According to him, each literary text reveals the narration that its analysis would help to understand its order. This method that goes beyond analysis makes other studies such as sociology, social science, literary history, anthropology and psychoanalysis to be done by stronger and more valid reasons. Edgar Allen Poe (1849-1909) as created some works in genre of mystery and detective stories which death is an important theme of these stories. Allen Poe could create short stories that their narrative style has had a better and stronger influence on readers. The way of its narrative that affects more powerfully depends on elements such as point of view, mode, voice, and succession of incidents, order and other reasons. Also the narrative of story indicates the mental state of characters and point of view of author. In all of the Poe’s stories, these concepts developed by Gerard can shed light on the main framework of these works for the reader. Therefore such a reading is important since it can disclose the mysteries of the stories and their difficulties can be understood and the reader can get a clear picture of the story and his following of these rules would be tangible.