Fiction and fictive temporality are analytically separable from narrative structure.

Evidence

The question of fiction and the fictive would thereby find itself radically dissociated from questions of narrative and storytelling as such (although it would retain a key role and function in the practice of certain forms of narration): many of the confusions of the so-called representation debate (often assimilated to a debate about realism) are dispelled by just such an analytic distinction between fiction effects and their fictional temporalities, and narrative structures in general. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 218

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides a clean analytic distinction that dissolves the representation vs realism debate: fiction is about temporality, not narrative.
• QUESTION: Would be worth testing whether this definition holds for literature, where textual time operates differently than filmic time.
• XREF: connects to: The basic structures of fiction shape how we make sense of reality — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1877