narratological
- adjective
- /ˌnærəˈtɑlədʒɪkəl/
- Literature
- The narratological analysis of the novel revealed its intricate structure and themes.
- narratological categories
- narratological work
- narratological analysis
Examples
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Postmodernist narrative has been a constant challenge to any standard narratological model.
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As we have seen, there was a burst of creative energy in the 1970s and a reinvigoration of narratological studies in the 1990s when the students of the first generation of narratologists started to publish.
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His narratological work includes a dozen key essays, the most famous of which are included in the next issue.
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The narratological model does not apply with equal felicity to oral storytelling, however.
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Work in progress on narrative structure from 1250-1750 will, however, return her to the narratological fold.
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One might then go on to ask whether a few well-known narratological scenarios might not also be described within a framework of metalepsis.
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For that purpose, I have elsewhere developed a typology and poetics of historical fiction based on five sets of narratological parameters.
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As a consequence, second-person fiction helps to deconstruct standard categories of narratological inquiry.
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Includes narratological examinations of Collins's works and his infusion of a quest theme into his novels.
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The application of these narratological criteria yields more differentiated and systematic possibilities of typological classification than those achieved using previous models.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
About telling a story in speech or writing
Surface Forms
Morphology
narratological = narratology (opaque) = narrat + ology + ical
The word is a regular adjective in -ical built on the specialized noun narratology, but its meaning is not easily recoverable for an average learner.
Etymology
Narratological comes from the root narrat- meaning 'to tell', as in narrate and narrative, plus the ending -logy meaning 'study'. So, narratological is about the study or structure of storytelling, which is why we use it for the parts and ways a story is told.