Narrative
In non-technical terms, no matter what the context (whether scientific, philosophical, legal, etc) a narrative is a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality. [Mar 2006]
Related: adaptation - audience - author - character - depiction - diegesis - discourse - fiction - interpretation - literature - literary theory - metanarrative - meaning - metaphore - mimesis - music - narratology - plot - point of view - remediation - representation - visual arts - reader - rendition - story - text
By medium: narrative film
Theory: Gérard Genette - semiotics - structuralism
Contrast: non-narrative - abstract - plotlessness - stream of consciousness
Definition
In non-technical terms, no matter what the context (whether scientific, philosophical, legal, etc) a narrative is a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality (per Walter Fisher). Derived from the Latin word gnarus and the Indo-European root gnu, "to know," it came into English via the French language and it is used in a number of specialised applications. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative [Mar 2006]
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Narratology
Denouement
Denouement, in literature, is the end effect of a character's earlier actions. Denouement occurs after the climax. There is a "turning point" between the climax and the denouement, termed "peripeteia".
The term is borrowed into English from the French. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denouement [Feb 2005]
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) [...]
I was thinking, Laura Mulvey talks explicitly about narrative cinema, but does she oppose it to non-narrative cinema, and does non-narrative cinema exist? Jahsonic, Mar 2004Analepsis and Prolepsis
What is commonly referred to in film as "flashback" and "flashforward." In other words, these are ways in which a narrative's discourse re-order's a given story: by "flashing back" to an earlier point in the story (analepsis) or "flashing forward" to a moment later in the chronological sequence of events (prolepsis). The classic example of prolepsis is prophecy, as when Oedipus is told that he will sleep with his mother and kill his father. As we learn later in Sophocles' play, he does both despite his efforts to evade his fate. A good example of both analepsis and prolepsis is the first scene of La Jetée. As we learn a few minutes later, what we are seeing in that scene is a flashback to the past, since the present of the film's diegesis is a time directly following World War III. However, as we learn at the very end of the film, that scene also doubles as a prolepsis, since the dying man the boy is seeing is, in fact, himself. In other words, he is proleptically seeing his own death. We thus have an analepsis and prolepsis in the very same scene. --Felluga, Dino. "Terms Used by Narratology and Film Theory." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.[May 2004]. Purdue U. [May 2004].
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