Narrativization is distinct from actual narrative segments, and cheap

Evidence

Particularly in the postmodern it is crucial to distinguish between narrativization and any specific narrative segment as such: failure to do so results in confusions between “old-fashioned realistic” stories and novels, and putatively modern or postmodern antinarrative ones. The story is, however, only one of the forms narrative or narrativization can take; and it is worth entertaining the possibility that today the mere intent to produce a story may be enough, as in Lem’s imaginary book reviews (Ken Russell, when asked why he had shifted over into MTV, prophesied that in the twenty-first century no fiction film would last longer than fifteen minutes). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘narrativization’ as separable from any particular story form — key to understanding how we distinguish postmodern antinarrative from old-fashioned realistic storytelling.
• QUESTION: If mere intent to tell a story suffices for narrativization, this bears directly on the reader’s push to test whether the ‘cultural dominant’ thesis is falsifiable — where does the boundary of intent lie?