Emplotment definition

Emplotment means introducing a structure or a „plot‟ that allows making sense of the events reported. To become a fully fledged story, a narrative needs to be emplotted. A structure is

Examples of Emplotment in a sentence

  • Emplotment can be understood as “the synthesis between heterogeneous elements.

  • Emplotment, Ricoeur’s term for the configuring act of narrative, is completed not with the composition of narrative, but with the consumption of narrative.

  • Emplotment is this same process, made conscious through the act of creating art.134 Meaning that remains implicit in events is made explicit in narrative.