Article made by Eleonor Nolan,Jul 29, 2025. Literary theory: In literary theory, there is a discipline called “narratology[i]”, a term coined by the Bulgarian-French philologist Tzvetan Todorov in his work “Grammar of the Decameron”, published in 1969. This study analyzes the structure of the tales from “The Decameron”, written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1349 and 1353[ii] in the Middle Ages. This contribution by Tzvetan Todorov marked a turning point in the field of semiotics. Some … Continue reading A brief study of literary theory; The Oval Portrait (Annex)