narrativize

English

Etymology

narrative +‎ -ize

Verb

narrativize (third-person singular simple present narrativizes, present participle narrativizing, simple past and past participle narrativized)

1. To turn into a narrative.
   • 1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature:

     […] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power.

   • 1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology:

     Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […]

   • 1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139:

     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.

   • 2005, Richard A Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies:

     To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human.