Narrative Inquiry · 2020 · 38 citations · 39 references
Literary TheoryFirst-person NarrativeVarious Narrative GenresNarrative SummarizationNarrative And IdentityCinematic StorytellingAnalytical ScopeNarrative RepresentationLiterary CriticismStorytelling (Game Design)Narrative Studies (Narrative Psychology)Discourse AnalysisLanguage StudiesNarrative TheoryCreative WritingNarrative ExtractionTheatreArtsImaginative WritingInteractive StorytellingScreenwritingPersonal ExperienceCreative NonfictionNarrative GenresNarrative Studies (Comparative Literature)Storytelling (Indigenous Studies)PlaywritingNarrative Dimensions Model
Narrative studies have expanded beyond prototypical personal narratives to encompass a wide array of genres, yet overlapping and internal differences among these genres, along with mixed real‑life stories, complicate genre classification. This paper proposes a Narrative Dimensions Model to delineate the key characteristics and distinctions among narrative types. The model comprises two three‑dimensional clusters: a narrator cluster (ownership, authorship, tellership) and a narrated‑events cluster (frequency, time, evaluation). Through a theoretical exploration of various genres, the author demonstrates the model’s utility and outlines its advantages for analyzing and scrutinizing narratives.
Abstract In the last few decades, the analytical scope of narrative studies has widened from a sole focus on “prototypical” narratives of personal experience to a wide variety of narrative genres. However interesting this may be, there are also some problems with these genres as there is not only sometimes considerable overlap between different genres, but there are also differences within these genres. Furthermore, real-life stories often consist of a mix of various genres, which makes applying genre-labels to these narratives problematic. Hence, instead of making such genre classifications, I propose an abstract “Narrative Dimensions Model” to tease out the relevant characteristics of and differences between various types of narratives. This model consists of two three-dimensional clusters, viz., one revolving around the narrator and containing the dimensions of ownership, authorship and tellership, and one revolving around the narrated events, containing the dimensions of frequency, time and evaluation. I illustrate this by a theoretical exploration of various narrative genres and I conclude by sketching the advantages of conceptualizing and scrutinizing narratives by means of this model.
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