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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Dimensiones del discurso (Tenor, Mode, Domain) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoUn esquema utilizado en mis clases de Comentario de Textos Literarios Ingleses para explicar las diversas dimensiones o parámetros de análisis funcional del discurso: la relación entre interlocutores o ‘tenor’, el canal comunicativo, medio o ‘modo’, y la función interactivo-comunicativa o ‘dominio’. ___…[Read more]
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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]
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”.
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’.