Non-narrative

In Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart discusses non-narrative storylines. She discusses the three most common approaches in non-narrative, which are categorical, rhetorical and abstract. In the book she talks about how audience participation is needed more in non-narrative, compared to narrative due to the lack of a concrete plot (pg.340). I like non-narrative pieces because I can take what the artist made and interrupt it in my own way, I can make it what I want. However, I don’t like it when I have to think a lot about it, or stop what I am watching to think about it. I don’t like that because I feel that when I have to really think hard about it, it takes away from the actual piece. So, instead of concentrating on the piece, I am concentrating on what I am thinking about. I think it is important in this case, of non-narrative, to give the audience just enough to think about, but not too much.