Narrative Studies

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Narrative Studies.

• Absent-Minded Professor — A stock scholar character whose exceptional intellectual competence is paired with research-absorbed inattention to immediate practical and social demands, producing recognizable, usually benign mistakes and comic incongruity.
• Tellability — The context-dependent quality that makes an event or sequence sufficiently remarkable, consequential and audience-relevant to warrant narration.