alterationsnarrative
Alterationsnarrative is a term in narrative theory and literary criticism used to describe a mode of storytelling in which the narrative foregrounds alterations to events, identities, or interpretations either within the internal world of the story or across its retellings. The term encompasses both in-world changes—characters or narrators revising past events—and meta-textual revisions by the author or by frame narratives. It is not tied to a single genre and can appear in literature, film, and digital media.
Core features include non-linear chronology, multiple or divergent timelines, frame narratives that invite revision, unreliable or
In scholarly use it is discussed alongside metafiction, intertextuality, and revisionist narratives. It is applied to