Narrative Co-Construction: A Rhetorical Approach

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts

“…And epistemic epitexts can too be employed to offer informative material 2. My approach to storyworlds and the actual world follows the use of the two concepts as explicated in "Narrative Co-Construction" (Effron, McMurry, and Pignagnoli 2019). In this article, the term storyworld follows David Herman's definition of a framework within which inferences about parts of the narrative make sense: "Storyworlds can be defined as the worlds evoked by narrative; reciprocally, narratives can be defined as the blueprints for a specific mode of world creation" (2009,.…”

“…Application refers to the idea that the process of co-building a particular narrative storyworld (re)constructs authors' and audiences' ideas of reality so that the actual world is constructed along with the storyworld (see Effron in Effron, McMurry, and Pignagnoli 2019). Co-constructing a narrative means that the author's communicative act enables the audience's co-construction of the storyworld, as well as of the actual world.…”

The fog of words: Assessing the problematic relationship between strategic narratives, (master) frames and ideology

“…In particular, the notion of ‘strategic narrative’ has been applied to IR, especially thanks to Freedman (2006). Narrative research is the starting point for any analyses of strategic narrative (Effron et al, 2019). Indeed, the discussion of narratives 3 in the context of contemporary warfare focuses on the concept of ‘strategic narratives’ (Betz, 2008: 519).…”

“… 15 In this case, the narrative research is useful for bringing a theory of ‘narrative co-construction’, which refers to ‘collaborative processes of imagining or building both storyworlds and the actual world’ (Effron et al, 2019: 341). …”

Reshaping Reality: Mystery Fiction Literary Tourism and Its Effect on Real‐World Spaces

“…David Geherin reinforces this instantiation, noting “many famous cities—London, Paris, Venice, to name but a few—have been described so often and so effectively that they have in a very real sense been created by literary texts” (5). Geherin’s notion of cities having “been created by literary texts” (5) indicates the general co‐constructive nature of stories set in actual‐world locations, using the definition of “narrative co‐construction” I developed with Margarida McMurry and Virginia Pignagnoli as follows: “collaborative processes [between author and audience] of imagining or building both storyworlds and the actual world” (Effron et al. 333). As can be seen from mystery fiction tourism, this co‐constructive tendency is likely reinforced in mystery fiction in which the audience is actively invited to recreate what Tzvetan Todorov calls “the story of the crime” as they read “the story of the investigation” (44).…”