motivation

Motivation is a technical term from narrative theory .

Motivation at the level of the event

At the level of what happens in a narrative, a distinction is made between a “causal” and a “final” motivation.

In causal motivation, the cause-and-effect principle comes into play, ie a development or action has a clear cause.

Providence comes into play with the final motivation, that is, for example, that a meeting of certain figures has no causal cause, but appears to be meaningfully designed towards a goal.

literature

• Reinhard K. Sprenger : The Myth of Motivation . 17th edition. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-36894-3 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Motivation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Narratological glossary of terms. Edited by Peter Hühn et al. Elaborated by Project Group 6 in the Narratology Research Group at the University of Hamburg , pp. 8–9.

• Explanation of the causal and final motivation at LiGo - Basic literary terms online