DH200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Os Lusíadas, Rhetorical Modes
29 Jan 2018
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Important part of communicated world and entertainment world. Contoured by: point of view, voice, time. A timeless tradition: mythology: narrative not just to entertain, record history/knowledge, teach values/lessons, develop group identities. History as a narrative: telling a story from the past in chronological order, stories from the past, beginning, middle and end, hayden white and post-modern critique. Clai(cid:373)s histor(cid:455) is(cid:374)(cid:859)t that differe(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Impose coherence on data: establish chronology and description to analysis, change over time, seek out motivation, causation, etc. Narrati(cid:448)e does(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, (cid:373)iddle, a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)d. While narrative often implies a story with beginning middle and end there are other possibilities. Non-linear narrative: events out of chronological order, parallel plots or embedded plots, absence of defined structure or variable structures. Create narratives that are interactive and branching. Multiple entry points and paths, levels of details. Narratives are at the heart of human experience especially as social animals.
