Showing papers in "Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies in 2010"
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TL;DR: The authors made a distinction between what is being told and discourse, and the manner in which it is being narrated, in the context of the Serena series of cold-blooded murders.
Abstract: To characterize readers’ narrative experiences, literary scholars have often made a distinction between story—what is being told—and discourse—the manner in which it is being told (for a review, see Herman 2002). Even simple stories permit unlimited variation in the manner of narration. Each completed narrative represents an author’s decisions about how best to tell his or her story. Consider a moment from Ron Rash’s novel Serena (2008). By this point in the novel, readers know that Pemberton’s wife, Serena, and her henchman, Galloway, have committed a series of coldblooded murders to further Serena’s ambitions for Pemberton’s business:
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have been reading Darwin's book on the "Origin of Species" just now and they have had a great effect in the scientifi c world, causing a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people have hitherto felt timid.
Abstract: We have been reading Darwin’s book on the “Origin of Species” just now. . . . [I]t will have a great effect in the scientifi c world, causing a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people have hitherto felt timid. So the world gets on step by step towards brave clearness and honesty! But to me the Development theory and all other explanations of processes by which things come to be, produce a feeble impression compared with the mystery that lies under the processes. — George Eliot, letter to Mme Eugene Bodichyon, December 5, 1859
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TL;DR: In Vom Mythos zum Logos (1940), a book that became emblematic of a now rather passe, idealized view of ancient Greek culture, Wilhelm Nestle proposed that the greatest achievement of the Greeks was the abandonment of the mythological interpretation of the world in favor of a rationalist model, developed with the tools of analytic thinking as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In Vom Mythos zum Logos (1940), a book that became emblematic of a now rather passe, idealized view of ancient Greek culture, Wilhelm Nestle proposed that the greatest achievement of the Greeks was the abandonment of the mythological interpretation of the world in favor of a rationalist model, developed with the tools of analytic thinking. Nestle’s account has since been supplanted by newer approaches, which found a lot more than myth in mythos and a lot less than pure reason in logos. However, if we restrict the meaning of his two terms and read mythos simply as “story” and logos as “logic,” Nestle’s catchphrase takes us back to a seminal event in cultural history, an event that has not been examined with the attention it deserves. More specifi cally, this essay argues that what we call, for short, “the birth of logic” can best be understood not as the abandonment of the narrative mode
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