³ The term ‘narrative’ can be construed in many ways. Here I shall use it in its standard, if restrictive, meaning, of which a condensed definition is given by R. Kellog and R. Scholes in their The Nature of Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), 4: ‘By narrative we mean all those literary works which are distinguished by two characteristics: the presence of a story and a story-teller.’