Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Intertextuality in the Narrative Paradigm

I feel I haven't given the narrative paradigm its due consideration in my blog. While reading through the text for the second time, I had an epiphany. The narrative paradigm in some ways parallels the discourse community and intertextuality. One can consider the forum for public moral argument as the discourse community. Within that community there are the stories that inform our operation and understanding of narrative probability and narrative fidelity. The storytellers or experts might be the ones considered regulating the discourse or imposing the constraints. It is an interactive process, however, and all members have the opportunity to alter the discourse with their own story (implantation of intertext). This creates a dynamic environment in which each story redefines and alters, if only a trace amount, the entire constitution of the narrative paradigm. The main thing here is that the entire discourse hinges on the interrelated narratives that constitute the community.

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