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Narrative Theory/Novel Theory - An Independent Study Course
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A graduate independent reading seminar in narrative theory at Vanderbilt University.
- Added on: Jan 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jay Clayton
- Listed in: Higher Fiction
- Tags: theory deconstruction narrative cognitive vanderbilt
Recent Posts
Collaboration in literary study
In the graduate class this semester, we plan to explore collaborative research techniques that are more common in scientific disciplines than in English. Each student will contact a professor in Vanderbilt’s medical school or related scienti...
Temporality and Repetition
In “Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel”, D.A. Miller writes: “[n]arrative proceeds toward or regresses from, what it seeks or seems most to prize, but it is never identical to it. To designate the presence of what is sought or prized ...
Happiness: Non-narratable or Just Boring?
Megan Minarich Narrative Theory Prof. Jay Clayton 17 NOV 2008 D. A. Miller, in “Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel,” identifies plot resolution as not only the end of the narrative, but also of the narratable; ...
Cognitive Narrative Theory: Overblown Story Logic?
Megan Minarich Narrative Theory Prof. Jay Clayton 12 NOV 2008 Let me first off ask a basic question: What is cognitive narrative theory? Through his discussion of the linguistic roots of narratology in Story Logic, David Her...
Ideology Logic
David Herman’s Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative is a compendium of research and a discussion of “the logic by virtue of which people (including writers) know when, how, and why to use stories to enable themselves and others to...
Maybe I Miss Structuralism…
Megan Minarich Narrative Theory Prof. Jay Clayton 5 NOV 2008 As the title might indicate, Fredric Jameson asserts at the beginning of The Political Unconscious that he is arguing for “the priority of the political interpretation of texts;” he ...
