20th century · 1930–2018
Who influenced Gérard Genette?
Influences
Narratology: order, duration, and voice as the grammar of narrative.
Gérard Genette was influenced by Roland Barthes and Tzvetan Todorov. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Gérard Genette?
Gérard Genette was a French literary theorist of the structuralist movement, close to Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he took the concept of bricolage.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Gérard Genette?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
- Tzvetan Todorov 1939–2017
The line of teachers behind Gérard Genette
The longest documented line of influence ending at Gérard Genette runs 3 generations back, to Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Émile Benveniste
- Roland Barthes
- Gérard Genette
Two steps away from Gérard Genette
Indirect influences
- Through Roland Barthes: Ferdinand de Saussure, Émile Benveniste
- Through Tzvetan Todorov: Roman Jakobson
Contemporaries of Gérard Genette
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gérard Genette, with no direct line between them.
- Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
- Jürgen Habermas 1929–2026
- Richard Rorty 1931–2007
- Alasdair MacIntyre 1929–2025
- Bernard Williams 1929–2003
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016
- John Searle 1932–2025
- Niklas Luhmann 1927–1998
Gérard Genette by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 5
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 29 — #75 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Gérard Genette
- Who influenced Gérard Genette?
- Roland Barthes and Tzvetan Todorov.
- Who did Gérard Genette influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Gérard Genette.
- When did Gérard Genette live?
- 1930–2018. The map files Gérard Genette under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Gérard Genette card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Gérard Genette in 29 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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