Analysis: Story And The Trouble With 'Emergent' Narratives

Narrative can’t help but have an internally coherent organizational logic (called "plot"). The important things about this logic are that it a) unfolds in time for a reader, that is, has a beginning, middle, and end, b) that the experience of reading is one of reading—of discovery and deciphering rather than production and self-creation, and c), that because of this, narratives appear for readers as pre-existing objects, things separate from a reader that demand to be seen and interpreted.