Narrative Strategies

Summary

A reference entry from literary studies, not campaign strategy. Narratologist Valerij Tjupa treats a narrative strategy as the author’s communicative aim, made of three parts: the narrator’s stance, the “narrative world picture”, and the plot’s pull on the reader. That world picture, “original assumptions about the general premises of our being”, sets what counts as an event at all.

Rationale

Its world picture is the nearest it comes to what we call deep dispositions, but its concern is how literary texts work, not how cultures form or change.