Tag Archives: Narratology

Divining the Dynamics

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Italo Calvino“Cybernetics and Ghosts” [1967 lecture]The Uses of Literaturetrans. Patrick Creagh And so the author vanishes – that spoiled child of ignorance – to give place to a more thoughtful person, a person who will know that the author is … Continue reading →

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On the Spaces of Narrative

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Lisa Robertson“The Hut”Boat what matters in the nar native is not the story but the shad ows it casts narrative becom es a linking space where elements can be ta ken up again, reanimated it holds rather t han represents … Continue reading →

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Naming as a Calling into Being Named

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Marcus makes viewing-listening a joy. Richer than machine-generated closed captions. Continue reading →

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Tapping a Path through Percussion

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Jacqueline Wernimont, author of “Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media” Distinguished Lecture, “Visceral Data: Renderings that & Matter” at Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. Link to talk/demo After listening to this presentation on data renderings in other … Continue reading →

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Construction and Chance

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Francois Lachance

CRAL – Centre de Recherches sur les arts et le langage Séminaires « Recherches contemporaines en narratologie » At 48 minutes in, Daniel Ferrer proposes that the notion of implied author (from Wayne Booth) be set alongside a passage from … Continue reading →

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Hermeneutical Symmetries

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Francois Lachance

I have been following the postings of José Angel García Landa at the Humanities Commons Narrative Theory and Narratology site. One posting brought me to rethink again the status of the relation between narration and description: https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/09/15/narrative-theory-wayback-machine/ To the temporal … Continue reading →

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From a meditation on the 4 Principles of RCAP*

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Story Hunter Stories lie in mirrors. Stories slip in film strips and along slide rulers. Stories twist and recombine like the strands of helix. Each story is open and blind. Each story offers a façade onto the unknown. With instruments … Continue reading →

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Narration-Direction-Memory

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Will Self: Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories? This is the part of brain concerned with way-finding, but it’s also strongly implicated in memory formation; neuroscientists are now discovering that at the cognitive level all three abilities … Continue reading →

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Tracing Sequences

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I know I had not read Steve McCaffrey and/or bp Nichol before I worked on “Sorting and Storing”. The whole chapter is devoted to the premise that “Narrative occurs where there is the reproduction of a sequence.” [T]he human self … Continue reading →

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Catch Up Determinism

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

The narrator in Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko muses on the nature of grand narrative: No matter what you or anyone else did, Marx said, history would catch up with you; it was inevitable, it was relentless. … Continue reading →

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