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All Surface and Little Depth: Characters, Character and Stories

All Surface and Little Depth: Characters, Character and Stories

Along with plot, characters are essential elements of stories. Seems straightforward, right?
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The Limits of Narrative

The Limits of Narrative

Your story. My Story. Our Story. There’s a story behind everything, it seems. But is it actually a story? The language of narrative and…
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How (not) to Understand a Story

How (not) to Understand a Story

When reading and writing stories, it is tempting to use a system to reduce the story to a structure. It’s beguiling, but it is…
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Time, Narrative and the Aporetic

Time, Narrative and the Aporetic

Narrated time changes the structure of the cosmos, making its shape more human
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Paul Ricoeur’s Mimetic Narrativity, in Summary

Paul Ricoeur’s Mimetic Narrativity, in Summary

Pulling together the threads of Ricoeur’s theory of narrative: prefiguration, configuration, refiguration.
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Refiguration, Understanding and Transformation

Refiguration, Understanding and Transformation

Refiguration is the third movement of narrative, the stage in which a story is restored to the real world of action and suffering. It is in…
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Configuration and Narrative Emplotment

Configuration and Narrative Emplotment

Configuration is the second moment of mimetic narrative, all about emplotment — about characters, events and the point of a story as a…
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Prefiguration and Narrative Competence

Prefiguration and Narrative Competence

Paul Ricoeur’s mimetic narratology sees three moments in narratives. Mimesis1, prefiguration, is the first moment, all about our…
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What is figuration?

What is figuration?

What’s in a story?
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