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p.7 According to [Roger] Schank, "storytelling and understanding
are functionally the same thing" [Roger Schank, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory
(New York: Scribner's, 1990), 24.]
p.8 Mink characterized narrative understanding as comprehension in the literal
sense of a "grasping together" - "a characteristic kind of understanding which consists in thinking together in a single act
... the complicated relationships of parts which can be experienced only seriatim." [JLJ - in series] ["History and
Fiction as Modes of Comprehension," in Fay, Golob, and Vann, Historical Understanding, 50. ]
p.22 In his Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), Peter Brooks puts it like this: "Plot, let us say in
preliminary definition, is the logic and dynamic of narrative, and narrative itself a form of understanding and explanation"
(10). I shall eventually question whether the term 'explanation' should in fact be defined so as to encompass narrative.
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