Importance of Narratives in Different Mediums

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

Introduction1

Purpose of a Narrative2

Why Narrative?3

History of Narrative4

Narrative as Genre5

Narrative as a Method6

Importance of Narrative10

Types of Narrative11

Types of Narrative Texts13

Non-Linear and Multi Linear Narratives18

Transformation of Books in to Films19

Comic books19

The Remakes20

Parodies20

Biopic21

Use of Narrative in film/ animation, books and Video Games21

Conclusion23

REFERENCES24

The Importance of Narrative in Different Mediums

Introduction

Narratives are stories that provide, in sequential order, the meaningful telling of events. In this telling, one sees the connection between biography, history, and society. Narratives are told for a particular audience at a particular time and place. By their very nature, narratives are case centred forms of social research.

Narratives are sequences of non-randomly connected events. In this general sense, narratives are everywhere. Biographies, curricula vitae, historical texts, letters, novels, reports, medical case histories, law text, and even scientific texts are, or contain, narratives. Narratives are therefore relevant to politics because they are ways of connecting events. By linking together events in space and time, they are a way of making sense of the world. News, discourses of politicians, reports of various kinds, law texts, biographies all of them are politically relevant narratives. They are means to make sense of the political world and, as a consequence, also of our place within it.

A number of different connotations are commonly connected to the use of the terms narrative research, narrative inquiry, and narrative analysis connotations that intersect and often contribute to the impression of narrative research as complex and multilayered, if not confusing. One of the most central ways this complexity plays out is in what can be taken as the most basic intersection, namely, that between research on narratives, in which narratives are the object of study, and research with narratives, in which narratives are the tools to explore something else typically aspects of human memory or experience. One of the goals of this chapter is to work through some of this complexity and to make recommendations for how to follow methodical procedures when working with narratives procedures that are built on, and follow insights gained from, work on narratives (Calleja, 2007, Pp. 259).

These narratives may be personal or impersonal, they may relate to mundane, everyday types of activities or be grander societal narratives that large-scale communities recognize and ...