ABSTRACT
While in chapter 3 we theorized narrative in terms of its syntagmatic and paradigmatic organization of events and actors in a story over time, we proceeded in chapter 4 to show how the telling, or the narration, is just as important as the story itself. We shall now take full account of what we only started to discuss previously, the location of narrative within a cultural and historical field of language practices. A narrative must be studied not only for its textuality or how it is structured by narrative conventions as a story and telling, but also for its connections to intertextual signifying networks.
