i was reading monsieur gerard genette recently, in his chapter on duration in narrative he says the four basic narrative movements are descriptive pause, scene, summary, and ellipsis, and up til the end of the nineteenth century novels would be mostly dramatic scenes against a background of summary used to link them. seems like the attachment to that kind of scenic writing might have to do with the artificiality of 'Realistic' plot (used to maximize the impact of all the scenes).
― j., Tuesday, 20 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link