Jan 13, 2014

q1 narrative is how we organize our experiences, our way of thinking
q2 add the need of a causal relation to make a narrative, classic example: king died. queen died
 is it a narrative. what if we add why queen died?
there should be a percieving agent.
there needs to be change as a result
q3 recipes and story rely upon representation. how do you change one into another?
r to s, add subjectivity?
imagining a person doing it and explaining why they're doing it.
s to r, make it objective, 
abstacting particular into general is what you're doing for either way.
individual experiences vs the "general" experiences, the particular "unknowns," arriving at the "universal" 
q4 it should be a good story. but what is a good story? it kind of defeats the objectivism, right?
 but it is a spectrum. not clear-cut. But is it still right? is it saving the narrative from the scrutiny of scientific analysis?
 it is a human, emotional experience after all. makes the reciever very important, it seems.
 the meaning of the story? is it a positive one or at least, one worth leaving off with? does it expand our world, much? 
individual existants/beings. eliminate abstract representations or entities.
 some unity amongst events and also closure amongst events after
high degree of "narrativity" means that it fulfills more of the criteria, we readers feel we are reading a story. 
rationalize what author wrote. discourse of how we talk about stories. 
 plot driven by beings of "intelligence." who can be characters in a story? who are "human?"
q5 understanding the criteria doesn't affect how we know what a narrative is. Or we know a narrative when we see it; we can "hunch" it. 
not crucial at all

not really a right or wrong on whether narrative or not. 
with fiction, there is a right or wrong. Or rather, it happened or it did not happen.