Narrative Representation of Causes

Narrative is just one form of representation, distinguished in some way from representations of other kinds-essays, treatises, arguments, insults, portraits, lyric poems, for example.' One attempt to say what is distinctive about narratives appeals to the kinds of representational contents they have: they are distinctive in focusing on particulars, in the particularity of their causal and temporal relations. The unity of a narrative, some degree of which is required if we are to have a narrative at all, is partly a matter of causal unity. With a highly unified narrative we find causal relations between