narratable
- adjective
- /ˈnɛrəˌteɪbəl/
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narrable
- Besides, since the literal return to London lies beyond the scope of the story and does not constitute narratable material, the only journey back is metaphorical, consisting of the retrieval and chronological ordering of the London events: the journey, in other words, is nothing else indeed than the narrative of the London period.
Examples
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Her journey through the wilderness was narratable, filled with adventure and unexpected challenges.
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This loss reinforces the connection between the material documents of memory and the possibility of a narratable subject, maintaining the undocumented subject exterior to the figure of the citizen (see Derrida 2).
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Your child simply is part of your family; no narratable process produced his or her belonging.
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By telling stories in this manner, we become narratable.
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We have speculated on what that desire consists in, and so the narratable becomes a plot.
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In Narrative and its Discontents, for instance, D.A. Miller proposes a category of "the narratable," events that allow for telling in the first place.
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If we want to understand what stories do, one of the questions it is wise to ask, according to socionarratologist Arthur Frank, is "What does the story make narratable?" (2010:75).
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The first institutes the narratable disequilibrium, which the second converts to a state of non-narratable quiescence" (109).
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A distinction such as D.A. Miller's between the "narratable" and the "nonnarratable" receives a vital political emphasis in this 1790s novel because the closure to which, as Peter Brooks puts it, "all narrative leans," is not imagined as the "happiness," for instance, of the successfully concluded marriage plot.
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The event was so shocking that it became a narratable experience for everyone who witnessed it.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Narratable comes from the old Latin verb narrare, which means 'to tell'. It shares the same root as narrate and narrator, so something narratable is 'able to be told' as a story.
