 | Lee Grieveson - 2004 - 364 pages
...the weight of being told as any number of different kinds of stories. Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story types and imposition upon the events that endows them with meaning" (44). 22. Peter Brooks,... | |
 | Dermot Moran, Lester E. Embree - 2004 - 386 pages
...given set or sequence of real events" has intrinsically narrative features; they acquire these features "only by the imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events."7 Stories are usually told in retrospect, it is argued, and the story-teller tends to organize... | |
 | Jens Bruun Kofoed - 2005 - 314 pages
...real problems lie elsewhere. In a key statement, White claims that, "since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical,...given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition upon the events that endow them with meaning."38 Andrew P. Norman,... | |
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Since no given set or sequence of real events is intrinsically tragic, comic, farcical, and so on, but can be constructed as such only by the imposition of the structure of a given story type on the events, it is the choice of the story type and its imposition... 
