Thursday, January 25, 2018

Are narrative forms instinctual?

I want to say that Truisms are instinctual. Like Truism 7, X*::X,  is probably universal. Doesn't everyone like a happy ending? Similar for the simple patterns one sees in "The Elements of Narrative". Ouch, it hurts my head to think about!

 But I was thinking about music and how it has very explicitly articulated narrative structure - but it is not necessarily instinctual, or at least not entirely. Those highly evolved and complex musical narratives need no other analog in our experiences.

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