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narrativize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English narrative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English narrativize From narrative + -ize.

Meanings

1. To turn into a narrative.
   • Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial. 1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139:
   • Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […] 1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology:
   • […] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power. 1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature:
   • To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human. 2005, Richard A Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies:

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