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 (per Walter Fisher). Derived from the Latin word, it came into English via the French language and it is used in a number of specialised applications.

Related reading

• Fisher, Walter R. (1984). "Narration as Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument" in Communication Monographs, Vol. 51, pp. 1-22.
• Genette, Gérard. (1980 ). Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method. (Translated by Jane E. Lewin). Oxford: Blackwell.
• Jakobson, Roman. (1921). "On Realism in Art" in Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist. (Edited by Ladislav Matejka & Krystyna Pomorska). The MIT Press.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude. (1958 ). Anthropologie Structurale/Structural Anthropology. (Translated by Claire Jacobson & Brooke Grundfest Schoepf). New York: Basic Books.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude. (1962 ). La Pensée Sauvage/The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Mythologiques I-IV (Translated by John Weightman & Doreen Weightman)
• Todorov, Tzvetan. (1969). Grammaire du Décameron. The Hague: Mouton.