antinarrative

Examples

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• Once recognized as functions of the text model, even the most bizarre antinarrative textual procedures become conventions that the competent reader takes for granted and through which a sense of provisional reference-world order can be created.

  Academic text (1995)

• Here is a sample of antinarrative operations and their visual generators.

  Academic text (1992)

• If a text establishes a fact and then "takes it back," the very rules of narrative fiction are violated, producing antinarrative.

  Academic text (1995)

• A similar dilemma occurs in the cases of embryonic, braided, and antinarrative.

  Academic text (1992)

• I believed him to have an appreciation for these things, while my other colleagues did not, and it was refreshing to tell a story about a man who took his own life without my interlocutor accusing me of being a romantic or of adding narrative to art that is starkly antinarrative.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The antinarrative narratives and antitradition traditions of contemporary Western culture are clearly part of the problem, and environmental educators would do well by their students if they could make explicit the social and ecological poverty contained in these metanarratives.

  Academic text (1998)

• However, what dominates is an antinarrative narrative based on sound bites and decontextualized data that threatens to overwhelm the last vestiges of contextual meaning that can be applied to life.

  Academic text (1998)

• Many contemporary films use antinarrative techniques to challenge viewers' expectations.

• Her latest novel is a striking example of antinarrative, deliberately avoiding a straightforward plot.

• The artist's antinarrative approach left audiences questioning the meaning behind the fragmented scenes.

Synonyms

N

nonnarrative

vsantinarrative

7.2

Not told as a story and not arranged like one

intentionally rejects traditional storytelling structure and conventions

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology