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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.

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Finding a voice: revisiting the history of therapeutic writing

TL;DR: It is suggested that the ability to construct well-organised and meaningful narratives is an important skill for successfully coping with life stressors and trauma, enabling individuals to create coherent stories from fractured memories and to facilitate cognitive processing of traumatic events.
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Historiography, Diagnosis, and Poetics

TL;DR: The patient history is examined as a way of knowing the human body and the human being to argue that the patient history depends for its structure on a codified narrative form.
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What are narratives good for

TL;DR: This work focuses on one particular proposal concerning the elements of a story that make it narrative-worthy, and argues, tracing one path through a maze of alternative possibilities, and alluding to those possibilities along the way is what a narrative does particularly well.
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Omniscience in Narrative Construction: Old Challenges and New

Meir Sternberg
- 01 Dec 2007 - 
TL;DR: The authors review the various old-new critical thrusts against epistemic superprivilege (outright denials, partisan judgments, attempted confinements, impairments, replacements, as well as genuine misunderstandings) arising since my constructive theory of omniscience appeared, often in response to it.