Zahra Khozaei Ravari - Author s institution: Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Sobhan Ghodratabadi - Co-Author s institution: Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Maryam Anbari - Co-Author s institution: Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

Previous works of Sophocles have been critically analyzed from different perspectives such as moral issues, cultural issues and fatalism. However, few researches have been focused on the narratology of this literary works To address this gap, this study is an attempt to investigate Genette’s elements of narratology in the tragedy of Oedipus the King by Sophocles. In their narratological analysis, the researchers have focused on time, focalization, mode of narration (‘mimetic’ or diegetic), narrator of the tragedy and speech and thought in the selected literary work. Through writing this article the researchers have done an innovative study in the field of literature.

Oedipus the king; mimetic; diegetic; focalization; time; speech