Introducing soem key concepts of narratology: narrator and other characters; some types of narrators (heterodiegetic and homodiegetic narrators; autodiegetic narrators); types of points of view (omiscient point of view vs. restricted point of view); exposition; the importance of space and its meaning/s; the importance of time and its distortions (summary and ellipsis vs. 'scenes').

Analysis of some excerpts of the novel, namely its opening paragraphs in contrast with the opening paragraphs of Emma by Jane Austen.