ABSTRACT
Story was defined above as the narrated events and participants in abstraction from the text. As such, it is a part of a larger construct, referred to by some as the ‘reconstructed’ (or ‘represented’) world (or ‘level’) (e.g. Hrushovski 1976a, p. 7), i.e. the fictional ‘reality’ in which the characters of the story are supposed to be living and in which its events are supposed to take place. In fact, story is one axis within the larger construct: the axis of temporal organization. Since this is the axis whose predominance turns a world-representing text into a narrative text, I shall confine my discussion to it, leaving out the broader construct which is not specifically narrative.
