2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, inThe Guardian[1]:
There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intenselynarrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.
A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certainpoint of view.
changing, controlling thenarrative
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Sport)[2]:
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddlednarrative of[Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
2017 May 30, Francisco Navas, quotingAlexandra Bell, “'It feels important': the counter-narrative artist challenging how news is reported”, inThe Guardian[3]:
[Alexandra] Bell challenges the dominant coverage of Brown’s killing with the aim of introducing “a perspective and anarrative which is probably how a lot of people from these communities saw it go down”.
2023 November 10, Chris McGreal, “‘It’s like a fire in the world’: how the Israeli ‘kidnapped’ posters set off a phenomenon and a backlash”, inThe Guardian[4],→ISSN:
The posters quickly became embroiled in the interminable battle overnarrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
(creative writing) A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
The plot is full of holes, but thenarrative is extremely compelling.
2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, inOnline: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet[5], volume 7,→DOI, page175:
The player is free to create their ownnarrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness ofMorrowind, to refuse the creation of anynarrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
