Narratives are a kind of garment. The national for Turner is what most people in the nation prefer. It is an electoral concept, quite simply, it is the popular.
National culture is the speech of the people.
The most popular for Turner is the most realistic. Australia is dominated by the realistic. Film is more realistic than the novel, he writes, because it is more sensate, more passionate, less cold and intellectual. Film then is more popular than the novel and hence more truly representative of the national. Now one of the features of the realistic is that it appears to be highly referential referring to the World, to Life and hereby filled with evident meanings and interpretations, as Turner would say, it articulates our experience.