ENGB03H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fine Time, Understanding Comics, Scoot
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Examples of non narratives: charts, statistics, recipes. However, most of out communications contain some degree of narrativity. Degrees of narrativity: they are in the room (description, they come and go (low narrativity, in the room the women come and go talking of michael angelo (medium, prufrock saying the above to you (high) According to james phelan, narrative can be understood as a rhetorical act: somebody telling somebody else on some occasion for some purpose that something has happened . Narrative is: what is being told, the act of telling, the act of receiving (listening, reading, the storyworld in which all of this takes place. Used to communicate something that can t be explained in any other way. The world we enter when we enter a story. The storyworld vs. our world: actual world (accepted facts ) Physical attributes, laws, principles: possible world (product of mental activity)
