And upon the great tree of time that supports many branching narratives is also the mycelium of metaphor : )

I like the use of white space to show Genette’s concepts as they cascade in opposing pairs. Very nice.

I think Galen Strawson mistakes narrativity (in his title) with narrative (in the authors he lists in the abstract), let alone narration. I will plow on and read the whole article In light of the 3Ns https://berneval.hcommons-staging.org/2014/09/16/3n-plus/

@41:57 Jean-Marie Schaeffer makes reference to the work of Galen Strawson “Against Narrativity” in relation to a discussion of the self in episodic memory which launches a set of remarks on autobiographic memory versus episodic memory and Ricoeur.
Strawson’s article : http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf
Schaeffer’s book:
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I like how two strands weave together here: a book’s impact is a result from reader openness to affect and imperative to control influence of any particular book. But I don’t quite concur with the verdict of boredom: “Fair-mindedness and a balanced view are boring and dispassionate attitudes.” Could one think in terms of a medical metaphor? Wide…[Read more]

The classroom becomes / oddly lonely when we talk about our homes.

Molly Peacock
“Our Room”
Raw Heaven

The book begins with an analysis of a system of exploitation based on turning data into profits, and argues that the new mode of production makes the motor of capitalism shift from products to information, a point well established by previous literature. Given this analysis, it astonishing that the last section of the book returns to a defense…

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Very tickled to discover that Rochester’s translation of Seneca continues thus:

Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
And to that mass of matter shall be swept
Where things destroy’d with things unborn are kept.

You have me thinking that to link is to originate: https://literarytheory.hcommons-staging.org/2021/04/10/linkterature-from-word-to-web-3/#comment-7

To link is to originate: “Blogs work through references to posts in other blogs, through the exchange, referencing, commentary and transformation of information, not so much through supposed originality in authorship: and what is paradoxical is that there is probably just as much originality in blog writing as in any other kind of writing.” –…[Read more]

I am struck by the event of dissolution (in Spencer’s articulation). I wonder how one might think of narrative dissipating into narrativity. Not so much all stories being chapters of a single story as all stories as potential building blocks for other stories. The challenge for me is actually observing a narrative degenerate. The glue is quick…[Read more]

One almost has to have students write something about what they read even if it is simply generating a list of keywords (and have other students comment on what was written). With the expectation of reporting there might be more reading. : )

Is there one of these volumes on history and theory of literary criticism that you would recommend as a text book for an introductory class? Habib seems comprehensive but is accessible to undergraduates. Anyone have an experience teaching with any of the volumes on the posted bibliography?

Tarta,

The Book of Idleness appears to be a fictional artefact created by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. There may be some French intertexts which feature “la paresse” and can be read not as influences but as elements in a field of associations.

Clément Paensers, L’apologie de la paresse.

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Halluciné. Moi ? Dompteur de tri…

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I had in mind less “influence” and more “consilience”.

Reading these musings on history and literature I was put in mind of the work of Hayden White and in the mood to read more of him.