Narrative Beginnings

Narrative Beginnings is a narratological construct designating the initial macro-structural segment of a narrative that, in contrast to what precedes it, functions to introduce the storyworld and principal actants, provide essential exposition and causally enabling conditions, and orient recipients’ expectations toward the subsequent development of the plot.

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Narrative Beginning

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Narrative TheoryNarratology

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Beginning Of The StoryCall To AdventureInitial SituationIntroduction Of SettingNarrative EntryNarrative HookNarrative LaunchOpening DeviceOpening EpisodeOpening Frame

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Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry

F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean Clandinin · Educational Researcher · 1990 · 4.8K citations

Humanities, Curriculum, Narrative Studies +5

Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry

F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean Clandinin · Educational Researcher · 1990 · 916 citations

Humanities, Curriculum, Narrative Studies +5

From knowing to telling: The development of children's scripts, stories, and personal narratives.

Judith A. Hudson, Lauren R. Shapiro · 1991 · 236 citations

Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Psychology +12

The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bump

Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Dorthe Berntsen · Memory · 2008 · 153 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +11

Bayesian Narrative: Probability, Plot and the Shape of the Fictional World

Karin Kukkonen · Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie · 2014 · 93 citations · Full text

Humanities, Literature, Literary Theory +12

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Authors

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D. Jean Clandinin
University of Alberta, Canada
3 publications · 5.7K citations
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F. Michael Connelly
University of Toronto, Canada
2 publications · 5.7K citations
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Brent Hayes Edwards
Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
1 publications · 17 citations
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Athena Androutsopoulou
Integrated Systems Development (Greece), Greece
1 publications · 14 citations
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Alice Morgan
Cosmetics Europe, Belgium
1 publications · 21 citations
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Educational Researcher
ER · 2 publications · 5.7K citations
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New Testament Studies
2 publications · 61 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 2 publications · 38 citations
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Sociological Inquiry
1 publications · 26 citations
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New Readings
1 publications · 19 citations
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