Definitions
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- noun A
narrative (as of a play or novel) that deliberately avoids the typicalconventions of the narrative, such as a coherentplot andresolution .
Etymologies
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anti- + narrative
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Examples
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In its endingThe Road embodies the conflict between the ordered teleology of story and the disordered antinarrative of life as it must actually be lived.
hernesheir commented on the word antinarrative
S'pose the leading character is called the antagonist?
December 5, 2011