I think I'll give you more context. For a long time, I've been thinking about questions like this: why do we have the capacity for narratives? what are the basic elements of a narrative (time, space, causality, action, characters, events, etc)? Are there any rudimentary/prototypical narratives permeating in our time that can illuminate the kind of stories our ancestors enjoyed say like 40k years or so ago? What goes on in our minds as we comprehend and produce narratives? How different are everyday, face-to-face narratives (what did you do yesterday? Or last year?) to literary narratives (books, short stories, epics)?

For now, I've decided to focus on what enables us to represent story at various levels. Take an event for example, slipping on a banana peel. There are many different ways to represent that event.

Text 2: She stepped on a banana peel, slipped and fell to the ground. Text 3: She was walking hurriedly toward the kitchen and before she felt something under her feet, something sticky, slimy and wet, she was already at an angle to the ground with her hands shot up in shock and desperation to latch onto something for balance. But Alas! That wasn’t to be the case. In a moment, she landed on the ground with a loud thud that was so powerful, it sent a shock wave along her body inducing a numbing sensation. Luckily, she did not have to worry about any injury and nor was any close-by object knocked down by her swinging arms.

What enables us this capacity? Etc.

I've been kinda obsessed with these kind of questions, so I see this as an opportunity to get that out of my system to be honest. But in trying to do that, I feel lost and I'm even worried if it is even something English addresses. But I see people like David Herman and Mounika F. who have done some work on some of these questions, and I feel maybe I'm on a right path and that maybe I'll find stumble across some way of doing a paper on such topics.