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French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700.--V. The English and French in North America, 1689-1763.--VI-VII. The United States of North America [1763-1850].--VIII. The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America Sloan candidate Subjects: Early maps; Cartography
Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of Leopold von Ranke on professionalising history-writing in the nineteenth century has been associated with empiricism .
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Narrative flow does not, however, require the introduction of synthesis; if sources do not state that a prior event in a person's life influenced their later behavior, editors should not draw the conclusion that it did. It is sufficient to present the facts in their proper chronological order, from which the reader can infer likely relationships.
narrative content, narrative discourse, narrative transportation, and; narrative persuasion. Narrative content and discourse are the linguistic antecedents of narrativity. Narrative content reflects the linear sequence of events as characters live through them—that is, the backbone and structure describing who did what, where, when, and why.
Narrative criticism focuses on the stories a speaker or a writer tells to understand how they [clarification needed] help us make meaning out of our daily human experiences. Narrative theory is a means by which we can comprehend how we impose order on our experiences and actions by giving them a narrative form.
Narrative film is usually thought of in terms of fiction but it may also assemble stories from filmed reality, as in some documentary film, but narrative film may also use animation. Narrative history is a genre of factual historical writing that uses chronology as its framework (as opposed to a thematic treatment of a historical subject).
Ergodic literature is a term coined by Espen J. Aarseth in his 1997 book Cybertext—Perspectives on Ergodic Literature to describe literature in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text. The term is derived from the Greek words ergon, meaning "work", and hodos, meaning "path". [1]