Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative

Genette, Gérard; Ben-Ari, Nitsa; McHale, Brian

doi:10.2307/1773076

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“…This parity also holds when participants explicitly state that they expect factual texts to be more useful and trustworthy (Appel & Malečkar, 2012). Additional work and theories corroborate the idea that paratext has little effect on persuasion (Genette et al, 1990;Mikkonen, 2006;Wheeler, Green, & Brock, 1999). Some studies suggest that individual differences may come into play.…”

Section: Fictionality Is Not a Deeply Coded Psychological Propertymentioning

confidence: 66%

“…While certain conventions do often indicate books and films as fiction ("indices of fictionality"; Hamburger, 1968), they are not "obligatory, constant, and sufficiently exclusive" enough that they could not be applied to works of fiction as well (Genette, Ben-Ari, & McHale, 1990). In other words, there is enough overlap on any possible index of fictionality between works of fiction and nonfiction to make classification impossible.…”

Section: Fictionality Is Not a Deeply Coded Psychological Propertymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fiction as Autobiography

Yang¹

2018

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Fiction is a pervasive human activity, consuming large parts of people’s day to day lives. In the present paper prepared for my qualifying exam, I delineate the set of understudied phenomena that is memory for events which occurred in works of narrative fiction. I synthesize literature showing that memories of the world and narrative are captured by mental models, which are neutral with regard their mode of construction. Moreover, such memories of narratives are relatively insensitive to the issue of fictionality, such that we apply the same cognitive processes regardless of whether events are framed as fictional or not. Based on this evidence, I argue that memories of fiction are of the same fundamental type or natural kind as autobiographical memories, exhibiting similar properties, functions, and downstream effects. Possible differences between memories of fiction and personal memories are discussed. Subsequent revisions are planned for submission as a review paper. I am grateful to my thesis committee for their encouragement and feedback: David C. Rubin, Mark R. Leary, Felipe De Brigard, and Elizabeth J. Marsh.

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Section: Fictionality Is Not a Deeply Coded Psychological Propertymentioning

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Section: Fictionality Is Not a Deeply Coded Psychological Propertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fiction as Autobiography

Yang¹

2018

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“…Moreover, the event understood as an action has to lead to more action. So, the events in a narrative do not stand on their own; they have to be placed in relation to each other (Genette 1990). Here, we have to distinguish a temporal and a causal dimension in the ordering of events and action.…”

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Contested stories of commercial security: self- and media narratives of private military and security companies

Kruck

Spencer

2013

Critical Studies on Security

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The article illustrates the potential of narrative analysis as a transdisciplinary method for Critical Security Studies by investigating self-legitimizing narratives of private military and security companies (PMSCs) and contrasting them to the narratives on PMSCs found in the news media. Employing narrative analysis and focusing on the websites of 55 PMSCs and 4 quality US and British newspapers, we reconstruct how PMSCs and the media establish 4 conflicting narratives characterizing PMSCs as technical and military experts vs. incompetent cowboys, professional businessmen vs. exploiting war profiteers, noble humanitarians vs. uncontrolled abusers and proud patriots vs. dirty mercenaries. Our analysis shows that the self-narratives of the PMSCs largely fail to arrive in the public media narratives, although some selfcharacterizations such as the expert or the businessman resonate somewhat better than others, in particular the strongly romanticizing images of the humanitarian or the patriot. We propose the concept of 'intertextual narratability' to suggest that the media reception of PMSCs' self-narratives is shaped by their (lack of) connectability to existing culturally embedded narratives on PMSCs.

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“…Fictional narratives offer no such external means of corroboration. The second distinction concerns the degree of access, be it real or presumed, to another person's motivations [25]. Factual narratives, especially those of the remote past, generally have to rely on relative, indirect, and partial knowledge of an actor's (or character's) motivation for attempting an action.…”

Section: A Working Understanding Of Narrativementioning

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Applying Burke’s Dramatic Pentad to scenarios

Shearer¹

2004

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Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative

Cited by 105 publications

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Fiction as Autobiography

Fiction as Autobiography

Contested stories of commercial security: self- and media narratives of private military and security companies

Applying Burke’s Dramatic Pentad to scenarios

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