Both Uses of
narrative
in
Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories?
- Gottschall's encouraging thesis is that human beings are natural storytellers—that they can't help telling stories, and that they turn things that aren't really stories into stories because they like narratives so much.†
*narratives = stories
- The narrative excitement of the great scientific theories, far from residing in their reassuring simplicity, lies in their similarly radical exclusions, their shocks: Everything in the whole universe is instantly attracting everything else!†
narrative = story
Definition:
a story; or related to a story