Meanings
comparative more narrativist · superlative most narrativist
- Based on or using a narrative.
Plot is not of overriding importance in my work. On the contrary: I am an episodic rather than a narrativist writer.
2015 October 13, Jonathan Buckley, “Jonathan Buckley: 'My novel is a mirrored room'”, in The Guardian3 more examples
How did the narrativist orthodoxy arise? I suspect that it is because those who write about it and treat it as a universal truth about the human condition tend, like Bruner, to be profoundly narrative types themselves.
2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The GuardianPut provocatively, one can both uphold a covering law model as far as the analysis of particular explanations is concerned, and still use a narrativist approach for the holistic analysis of historiographic texts.
2011, Aviezer Tucker, editor, A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBNThese and other narrativist approaches described above provide theoretical frameworks and methodologies that make it possible to consider the significance of narratives and narratology for other core areas of the study of culture, picking up the threads of other contextualist approaches like feminist and gender-oriented narratology […]
2012, Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nünning, editors, Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 175
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