Narratologists, however, rarely dis

Narratologists, however, rarely distinguish the texts to which such clas­ si今i吨 methods are appropriate from those to which they are inappro­ priate. The nature of narratology is to seek out fundamental categoriesthat can be applied to all literatures. While narracologists are consider­ ably less willing than they once were to reduce narrative to some funda­ mental and abstract “deep structure”that causes all individual textual details to appear as inessential articulation, they retain the goal of defin­ ing generally applicable terms for the study of narrative texts. Narrative bodies particularly reveal, however, the bias brough t to this field by narratology s traditional emphasis on the European novel.