Narrative and narrativity: a narratological reconceptualization and its applicability to the visual arts.

The writer presents a model of narrative and narrativity that may be applied to the visual arts. He first outlines two recent influential theories of narrative and narrativity by Gerald Prince and Monika Fludernik, both of which have their merits as well as their shortcomings. He then introduces a narratological model that draws on their theories, a reconceptualization that is meant to be applicable to more media than just verbal stories, and can thus be called "intermedial." In conclusion, he discusses the possibility of applying the resulting concept of narrative to the visual arts by referring to the medium of painting.