The Reluctant Narrator: A Survey of Narrative Practices Across MediaOften referred to as the narrative turn, an explosion of interest in narrative practices at the end of the twentieth century was predicated on the notion that life itself is storied, oras Jacques Rancire put itthat the real must be fictionalized in order to be thought. Postmodernism itself was described as a narrative turn in which a rekindled interest in the fictive, the chronicle, and the anecdotal upstaged the symbolic unity of high modernism. But