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A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences,[1][2] whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.).[3][4][5] Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled).[6][7] The formal and literary process of constructing a narrative—narration—is one of the four traditional rhetorical modes of discourse, along with argumentation, description, and exposition. This is a somewhat distinct usage from narration in the narrower sense of a commentary used to convey a story. Many additional narrative techniques, particularly literary ones, are used to build and enhance any given story.
The social and cultural activity of sharing narratives is called storytelling, and its earliest form is oral storytelling.[8] During most people's childhoods, these narratives are used to guide them on proper behavior, history, formation of a communal identity, and values from their cultural standpoint, as studied explicitly in anthropology today among traditional indigenous peoples.[9]
Narrative is found in all mediums of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television, animation and video, video games, radio, game-play, unstructured recreation, and performance in general, as well as some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts, as long as a sequence of events is presented. Several art movements, such as modern art, refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual.
Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories: nonfiction (such as creative nonfiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction) and fiction proper (such as literature in the form of prose and sometimes poetry, short stories, novels, narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances). Narratives may also be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator (a character) typically found in the genre of noir fiction. An important part of many narratives is its narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a written or spoken commentary (see also "Aesthetics approach" below).
- ^ Random House (1979)
- ^ Spencer, Alexander (2018-06-25). "Narratives and the romantic genre in IR dominant and marginalized stories of Arab Rebellion in Libya". International Politics. 56 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 123–140. doi:10.1057/s41311-018-0171-z. ISSN 1384-5748. S2CID 149826920.
Narratives here are considered to be part of human mental activity and give meaning to experiences.
- ^ Carey & Snodgrass (1999)
- ^ Harmon (2012)
- ^ Webster (1984)
- ^ Traupman (1966)
- ^ Webster (1969)
- ^ Mello, Robin (2001-02-02). "The Power of Storytelling: How Oral Narrative Influences Children's Relationships in Classrooms". International Journal of Education & the Arts. 2 (1). Archived from the original on 2008-06-30. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ Hodge, et al. 2002. Utilizing Traditional Storytelling to Promote Wellness in American Indian events within any given narrative