narrative
Let an agent handle narratives by form, narrator, structure, truth status and framing, separating fiction, testimony and history.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle narratives by form, narrator, structure, truth status and framing, separating fiction, testimony and history.
An account of connected events, real or imagined, presented in words, images or sound, such as stories, personal narratives, histories and folk tales; also the way events are framed and told.
What it is for: Communicating experience, meaning, memory and persuasion.
It can be analyse structure and point of view; distinguish fact from fiction; compare competing narratives; tell stories effectively.
Distinguishing features
Connected events
A narrator and point of view
Fictional or factual
Framing shapes meaning
What it looks like
Stories in text, speech, film, comics and games.
How it is recognised
Sequence of events with a narrator
Genres such as folk tale or memoir
Narrative as framing in politics is a related sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
is studied by - field
has part - components
is related to - factual narrative
In practice
Families and kinds
fictional narratives
personal narratives and memoir
historical narratives and historiography
oral and folk narratives
media and political narratives
Standards and regulation
Copyright for published narratives
Media codes on accuracy for factual storytelling
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting fiction as fact
One-sided framing
Misattributed stories
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.narrative
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Form Which narrative.
Form shapes reading.
Genre
Kind of story.
Genre
Form.
- What form or genre is the narrative? definition
- In which medium? definition
Narrator
Point of view.
Narrator
Narrator.
- Who tells the story, and from which point of view? definition
- Is the narrator reliable? boundary
Structure How it is built.
Structure organises events.
Plot
Sequence.
Plot
Plot.
- How are events ordered? definition
- Is time linear? definition
Themes
Meaning.
Themes
Themes.
- What themes does it explore? definition
- How are they conveyed? definition
Truth Fact or fiction.
Truth status matters.
Status
Factual claims.
Status
Truth status.
- Is it fiction, testimony or history? boundary
- What sources support factual claims? provenance
Framing
Competing accounts.
Framing
Framing.
- What other narratives of the same events exist? provenance
- Are they presented fairly? boundary
Practice Telling stories.
Storytelling is a craft.
Craft
Techniques.
Craft
Storytelling craft.
- Which techniques make a narrative effective? action
- For which audience? definition
Credit
Authors and traditions.
Credit
Attribution.
- Who created or holds the story? provenance
- Is traditional knowledge credited? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should narrative forms be separate entries?
- How should competing narratives be represented?
- How should oral traditions be credited?