ABSTRACT
In this and the following chapter we turn from characterization of the ‘ele mentary particles’ of narratives, grouped under the label ‘story’, to the various expansions and individualizations of those elements that go on in the production of text. We can think of the move from the abstract level of story components to the concrete level of textual realizations as both a process and an articulation. The main processes or articulations involved are listed by Bal as the following (I have replaced her terms ‘fabula’ and ‘story’ by ‘story’ and ‘text’ respectively, to avoid confusion):
1 The events are arranged in a sequence which can differ from the chronological sequence.
