Narrative Paradigm

Walter Fisher defined narration as a, "...theory of symbolic actions--words and/or deeds--that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create or interpret them. The narrative perspective, therefore, has relevance to real as well as fiction worlds, to stories of living and to stories of the imagination," and I wrote this whole quote down in class because it put the narrative paradigm idea into perspective for me.

Fisher claimed, among a few other things, that in the rational world:
Humans are essentially rational beings.

Rationality is a knowledgable skill.

The world is a set of logical puzzles.

These were the three most interesting claims that Fisher made. To understand storytelling and how we as people see our media, we have to understand the narrative paradigm. This is what Fisher was talking about, I think. How we tell the story impacts what the actual story is. We put our own narratives into everything we do. What we see and retell is then seen through our eyes.

Fisher said that the world is a set of stories being told and retold. I couldn't agree more.