Fra Aristotele e Greimas L'articolarsi di testo e azione nella teoria della narratività proposta da Paul Ricoeur

This paper deals with the articulation of the theories of text and action in Paul Ricoeur's theory of narration. Passing throughout his lecture of Aristotle's Poetics, in particular his reception of the notions of mimesis and mythos (which converge in Ricoeur's notion of plot) we will show how the distinction of three levels of the Aristotelian notion of mimesis (I, II, III) can explain the construction of sense in narrative texts. In this reflection on the articulation of text and action, Ricoeur's theory of narration meets the narrative and generative semiotics proposed by Algirdas J. Greimas. The concept of transformation in their reflection on narration is the presupposed reason of this encounter. Finally, we will show how and why their theories of narration converge or diverge.