RELATED TERMS: Narratology The question underlying this post is the issue of what an adequate narratology would be for the practice of the design of narrative environments, an approach to designing that emphasises the (necessary) inter-relationships among people, narratives and environments. In this context, the potential value of econarratology can be seen in three respects. Firstly,Continue reading “Econarratology”
Category Archives: Narrative Theories
Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet)
RELATED TERMS: In medias res; Genre; Tragic theatre – Aristotle; Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange; Narratology; Montage, Collage, Assemblage and Bricolage Design practices, it is argued, would do well to consider the notions of story, plot, chronology, de-chronologisation and teleology (end, goal or purpose), in the contexts of the narrative unfolding (intelligibility) and environmental navigationContinue reading “Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet)”
Narratology
RELATED TERMS: Actantial model – Greimas; Architecture; Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism; Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet or sjuzhet); Structuralism; Telos and Teleology “The study of narrative has become so popular that the French have honored it with a term – la narratologie. … Modern narratology combines two powerful intellectual trends: the Anglo-American inheritance ofContinue reading “Narratology”
Semiotic Square
RELATED TERMS: Actantial Model – Greimas; In Medias Res “How can one apply the semiotic square to the analysis of a non-Western and/or noncontemporary text, if the framework of meaning in which this text is usually read, for instance native American cosmologies, systematically disregards that principle of dialectic opposition on which the semiotic square is essentiallyContinue reading “Semiotic Square”
Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop
RELATED TERMS: Deixis and Deictic Acts; Heterarchy; Metalepsis; Ontological Metalepsis; “A weird knowing. Weird, from the Old Norse, urth, meaning twisted, in a loop.”(Morton, 2017: 92) Douglas Hofstadter (1979: 18) argues that a strange loop occurs whenever, by moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system, you unexpectedly find yourself right back where you started.Continue reading “Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop”
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