FANTASTIC NARRATIVE AND FUNCTION OF READER IN FANTASTIC NARRATIVE

Emergence of fantastic narration as a narrative genre has been composed as its “reality” criteria. According to Todorov’s study which shows the characteristics of the fantastic genre, emergence of genre requires the presence of other genres. The emergence of the fantastic genre is also based on the presence of other genres that take the reality criteria and antagonism formed between these genres. However the circumstance which makes the fantastic genre different from other genres is the contradiction in reader’s conscious. Reader reproduces the text with modal relations. Modal relation means that reader develops an attitude towards the narration by identifying herself with one of the narrative characters. Readers become an important factor in genre’s emergence with this perspective. Descriptions which are made regarding reader and reader’s “reality” perception have an important role in the fantastical genre’s characteristics. Reader’s perception is important in this regard. Reader’s reality perception is limited psychologically by conscious and perceptions. In this paper, conscious and perceptions concepts are analyzed with epistemic and metaepistemic modalities from semiotic modality. These modality and the relation of reality indicates reader’s relation to the other genres as well. In this study, fantastic narration characteristics and cases in the narrative structure will not be mentioned. The main topic of this study is to analyze narrated persons, narrator and especially according to the the epistemic and belief modality of semiotic modality. Reader’s detachment from the reality phase in order to create a new reality will be analyzed. The study aims to analyze the persuation modality on narrative which can persuade the reader.