The narrative construction of reality¶
Bruner, J. (1991). The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry, 18(1), 1-21.
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- Narrative
- Narrative supplies the answer that humans reach for first — not a list, a model, or a proof, but a story with agents who want things, obstacles that thwart them, and a movement toward closure.
This sourceProgrammatic statement of how narrative organizes experience into coherent realities through canonical structure (agency, sequence, particularity, intentionality), establishing narrative as a mode of thought distinct from logico-scientific reasoning.
- Narrative supplies the answer that humans reach for first — not a list, a model, or a proof, but a story with agents who want things, obstacles that thwart them, and a movement toward closure.
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