narrativize

present singular third person narrativizes · participle present narrativizing · participle past narrativized · past narrativized

1. To turn into a narrative.

   […] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power.

   1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature

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   Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […]

   1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology

   Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.

   1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139

   To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human.

   2005, Richard A Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies