narrativity

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noun

The presentation (and subsequent interpretation) of a dramatic narrative.

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Meanings

nounnarrativity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe presentation (and subsequent interpretation) of a dramatic narrative.

    Is any of this true? Do we create ourselves? Is the narrativity view a profound and universal insight into the human condition?

    2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian
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    It is the narrative which contains narrativity, and this narrativity will precisely include the means by which the reader is encouraged to a lesser or greater degree to actively construct the story […]

    1992, Philip John Moore Sturgess, Narrativity: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Origin

From narrative + -ity.

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