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Francois Lachance's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
And upon the great tree of time that supports many branching narratives is also the mycelium of metaphor : )
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Francois Lachance deposited Seventh Communication Function in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAn exploration of Roman Jacobson’s six communication functions focused particularly on his remarks on dominance. This brief note posits a seventh (metadiscursive) function to model shifts in the dominance of one of the six functions.
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
I like the use of white space to show Genette’s concepts as they cascade in opposing pairs. Very nice.
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Francois Lachance deposited Seventh Communication Function on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
An exploration of Roman Jacobson’s six communication functions focused particularly on his remarks on dominance. This brief note posits a seventh (metadiscursive) function to model shifts in the dominance of one of the six functions.
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
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/
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
@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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Yes, I read some of Galen Strawson’s strictures against ‘the narrative self’…. I suppose narrative is too tight a structure in which to fit everything that happens in a life and in a self, but nonetheless narrative dimensions are inescapable in interpreting and evaluating actions, selves, lives…. after all we see them not as wholes but as…[Read more]
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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/
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
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]
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
The classroom becomes / oddly lonely when we talk about our homes.
Molly Peacock
“Our Room”
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Very tickled to discover that Rochester’s translation of Seneca continues thus:
Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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]
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It’s quite a read, Lowes on Coleridge. Immensely enjoyable once you’re in the mood to dive into a meta-world of letters—a Borges mood is advisable. And, yes, merely to link is more creative than one would think, the connection adds to both things connected. Remember, what E.M. Forster said, I think it was in Howards End, “Only connect!”
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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]
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Yes, I agree, François, one story does lead into another one…. And sometimes, what is the central story for us, with its point and everything, becomes just a building block for someone else’s story. Makes me think of what Rochester says in a poem, “Dead, we become the lumber of the world”.
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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.-
Yes, quite impressive! I also recommend the Johnny Depp film on Rochester, ‘The Libertine’.
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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. : )
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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?
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It’s now years since my literary theory class was scrapped, so… My approach was historical, and that included Eagleton, who is engaging and quite readable. But my undergraduates in other courses seem to have a hard ride reading anything at all.
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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. : )
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Yeah, good idea. On might put to use there a bit of discreet Peer2Peer shaming…. I’m being Machiavellian!
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
I had in mind less “influence” and more “consilience”.
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Yes, actually I try to do that ‘consilient’ work all the time —seeing how the pieces of different critical discourses or insights fit (or fail to fit) together, I think E. O. Wilson did a good job bringing back to our attention (some say coining) the concept of consilience, it’s a central cognitive activity.
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Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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.
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Yes I’ve also read Hayden White quite some time ago; who knows the way our readings work on our minds —even when we’re not quoting them we may be responding to them.
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I had in mind less “influence” and more “consilience”.
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Yes, actually I try to do that ‘consilient’ work all the time —seeing how the pieces of different critical discourses or insights fit (or fail to fit) together, I think E. O. Wilson did a good job bringing back to our attention (some say coining) the concept of consilience, it’s a central cognitive activity.
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