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Narrative vs Pseudonarrative - What's the difference?

narrative | pseudonarrative |

As adjectives the difference between narrative and pseudonarrative

is that narrative is telling a story while pseudonarrative is apparently, but not actually, narrative.

As a noun narrative

is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

narrative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Telling a story.
  • Overly talkative; garrulous.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Alexander Pope)
    • But wise through time, and narrative with age.
  • Of or relating to narration.
    • the narrative thrust of a film

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  • That which is narrated.
  • A representation of an event or story.
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    • Derived terms

    * antenarrative * antinarrative * metanarrative

    Related terms

    * narrate * narration * narrator

    pseudonarrative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Apparently, but not actually, narrative.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 29, author=Mike Hale, title=Pretty Clouds, Vistas and Sardines, Too, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=If, like the many slavish devotees of “Planet Earth” and the even earlier “Blue Planet,” you are susceptible to the narcotizing effect of gorgeous landscape photography and the pseudonarrative pull of cleverly edited animal behavior, then why resist? }}