Narrative and narratives

Despite the continued prestige of narratology as a field of inquiry, narrative itself in both fictional and factual form, has come to be viewed with increasing suspicion, especially by Postmodernists. The standard analyses of early narrative fiction invariably point out that narrative must be understood as intrinsically ideological, while more recent accounts of both fictional and non‐fictional narrative argue that it is necessarily linked to realism in art and humanism in thought, and therefore open to the limitations of both. By contrast it is argued here that a formal analysis of history such as the one undertaken by Danto, as well as instances of literary modernism such as the work of Robbe‐Grillet, both attest to the fact that the presence of narrative in no way vitiates either their critical or epistemic claims. Instead, the attack mounted by Post‐modernists on narrative must rather be seen as stemming from the incoherence of Post‐modern pluralism

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  Arthur Coleman Danto•Analytical philosophy of history•1965

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• Morphology of the Folktale

  Vladimir Propp, Laurence Scott et al.•Morphology of the Folktale•1968

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