आख्यान शास्त्र

Also known as narrative theory

thumb|Vladimir Propp in 1928. Literary historian, university professor, linguist, writer, and Soviet philologist. Precursor of narratology.|249x249px Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. The term is an anglicisation of French narratologie, coined by Tzvetan Todorov (Grammaire du Décaméron, 1969). Its theoretical lineage is traceable to Aristotle (Poetics) but modern narratology is agreed to have begun with the Russian formalists, particularly Vladimir Propp (Morphology of the Folktale, 1928), and Mikhail Bakhtin's theori