What is narrativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21379321 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nazim Keven (0000-0001-5368-8265, Department of Philosophy Bilkent University Ankara Turkey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 204-214 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ratio (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-0006 • E-ISSN: 1467-9329 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rati.12418 |
| OpenAlex | W4400015437 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In recent years, narrative accounts of the self have gained increasing attention. It is widely accepted that humans are storytelling creatures, that stories shape our self‐conception, and that we fail to be agents without a narrative framework. While there is less agreement on what constitutes a narrative, it is generally understood to be more than a chronological listing of life events; it is also an account of the explanatory relationships among these events—a story of how events lead to other events. However, specifying the nature of this explanatory relationship has proven difficult. As critics have pointed out, narrativists often resort to simplistic notions of narrative when faced with criticism. The concept of narrative explanation needs to be elaborated in a way that is both substantive enough to exclude trivial behaviours from being considered narratives and nonrestrictive enough to accommodate ordinary lives that may not be particularly story‐like. In this paper, I review existing accounts of narrative explanation and propose a teleological account, according to which narratives consist of goal‐directed explanations of a sequence of events. I argue that a teleological account of narrative explanation can be a fruitful way to clarify the concept of “narrative” in the context of the narrative self by addressing the most common objections
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrativity · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
The Mess Inside
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Against Narrativity
Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.
After Virtue
The Self as Narrator
The development of goal plans of action in the narration of a picture story
On the ability to relate events in narrative
Narrative possibility and narrative explanation
Narrative Explanation
Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency
Is there a hierarchy of social inferences? The likelihood and speed of inferring intentionality, mind, and personality
Sources of the self
The Idea of Teleology
Situation models in language comprehension and memory
Stories are to entertain
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |