Part of
Narrative – State of the ArtEdited by Michael Bamberg
[Benjamins Current Topics 6] 2007
► pp. 185–193
Narrative is one of many strategies for making texts or coming to understand the world. This paper attempts to restore narrative to that status: as one mode of writing or telling among others. The main example developed is the contrast between blues ballads such as “Frankie and Johnny,” which tell a story, and traditional or modular blues songs, which do not.