Knowledge Commons | Francois Lachance | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/francoislachance/activity/ Activity feed for Francois Lachance. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:47:16 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bb7331159025e91fb131dc7ab97d99be Francois Lachance replied to the topic Pragmatics of Language and Literature in the forum Literary theory https://hcommons.org/groups/literary-theory/forum/topic/pragmatics-of-language-and-literature/#post-92018 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:52:07 -0400 I like the conjunction of surprise and expectations of response:

readers are quite often unexpected creatures, especially those readers who take the pen or the keyboard and produce a text of their own which is a response to the original text

]]> 9481cb4ce4a103600ab426d6d862062d Francois Lachance commented on the post, Greetings, wanderer!, on the groupblog Narrative theory and Narratology https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2025/03/14/notes-on-narrative-and-the-self-2/#comment-3556 Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:58:24 -0400 JAGL notes:

“the semiotic representation of a series of events” (no talk of meaning- which is a shortcoming in my definition)

I actually think that the non-mention of meaning is a strength of your def […]

]]> 1b8b7e3de07b167a25b1631a09a234ef Francois Lachance's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824455/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:34:16 -0500 0 7ed3c1d7e779802bd10751d118648813 Francois Lachance commented on the post, Tasting truth: three transcriptions, on the site BERNEVAL https://berneval.hcommons.org/2014/08/03/tasting-truth-three-transcriptions/#comment-831 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:51:14 -0400 transcription error

*content for *constant

the passage should read:

but as an entering into a process of
constant meditation, of past
and present

]]> 275996feeb7da3ae717fee64f19d2177 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750010/#acomment-1750186 Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:16:57 -0400 And upon the great tree of time that supports many branching narratives is also the mycelium of metaphor : )

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Narrative as the Tree of Time in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Retropost, 2011: Narrative as the Tree of Time https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/narrative- […] ]]> d608d99687b1d1cb6654b07474f3d331 Francois Lachance deposited Seventh Communication Function in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745140/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:33:20 -0400 An exploration of Roman Jacobson's six communication functions focused particularly on his remarks on dominance. This brief note posits a seventh (metadiscursive) function to model shifts in the dominance of one of the six functions.

]]> 0 1e1a2ba95318ce0abdb21545ea89b7d0 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743904/#acomment-1745115 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:49:25 -0400 I like the use of white space to show Genette's concepts as they cascade in opposing pairs. Very nice.

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Notes on the Narrative Modes in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Notes on the Narrative Modes: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/05/notes-on-narrative-modes.html ]]> 0ed9df4c7db62d5c3a9d426e6f66e33f Francois Lachance deposited Seventh Communication Function https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745060/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:14:02 -0400 An exploration of Roman Jacobson's six communication functions focused particularly on his remarks on dominance. This brief note posits a seventh (metadiscursive) function to model shifts in the dominance of one of the six functions.

]]> 0 21e93a47f3b06d95e450ef09e8c87e30 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736404/#acomment-1741973 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:14:24 -0400 I think Galen Strawson mistakes narrativity (in his title) with narrative (in the authors he lists in the abstract), let alone narration. I will plow on and read the whole article In light of the 3Ns https://berneval.hcommons.org/2014/09/16/3n-plus/

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post De quelques fonctions de la narration in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: ]]> 711ad826c78d6c75c732a40e1ca3616b Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736404/#acomment-1741732 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:09:02 -0400 @41:57 Jean-Marie Schaeffer makes reference to the work of Galen Strawson "Against Narrativity" in relation to a discussion of the self in episodic memory which launches a set of remarks on autobiographic memory versus episodic memory and Ricoeur.
Strawson's article : http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf
Schaeffer's book:
Les…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post De quelques fonctions de la narration in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: ]]> 7f305c5a4c1e8895e515ea832ec41454 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738875/#acomment-1740050 Sun, 30 May 2021 00:43:19 -0400 I like how two strands weave together here: a book's impact is a result from reader openness to affect and imperative to control influence of any particular book. But I don't quite concur with the verdict of boredom: "Fair-mindedness and a balanced view are boring and dispassionate attitudes." Could one think in terms of a medical metaphor? Wide…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post On Being Influenced by Books in the group Literary theory: Retropost, 2011: On Being Influenced by Books https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-being-influenced-by-books.html ]]> 36ec73912385fc6f4268c512c81b8ab3 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683319/#acomment-1739292 Mon, 24 May 2021 16:06:18 -0400 The classroom becomes / oddly lonely when we talk about our homes.

Molly Peacock
"Our Room"
Raw Heaven

In reply to - Francois Lachance wrote a new post, On Never Being Boring, on the site BERNEVAL i am my own student a veritable portable classroom And so for day 2751 25.06.2014 ]]> 135e7cddf9c67ed8026ebb6e6ca0a748 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689262/#acomment-1736908 Sun, 02 May 2021 20:18:46 -0400

The book begins with an analysis of a system of exploitation based on turning data into profits, and argues that the new mode of production makes the motor of capitalism shift from products to information, a point well established by previous literature. Given this analysis, it astonishing that the last section of the book returns to a defense…

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In reply to - Francois Lachance wrote a new post, What Peaks Through, on the site BERNEVAL Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power [525 pages plus […] ]]> 33aad34c21077caab628de36d144cf39 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733510/#acomment-1735477 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:01:41 -0400 Very tickled to discover that Rochester's translation of Seneca continues thus:

Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
And to that mass of matter shall be swept
Where things destroy'd with things unborn are kept.

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group Narrative theory and Narratology "The narratives of the world are numberless"; yet, all s […] ]]> f7790011ef8837a812b09747ee830cee Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734510/#acomment-1735275 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:25:23 -0400 You have me thinking that to link is to originate: https://literarytheory.hcommons.org/2021/04/10/linkterature-from-word-to-web-3/#comment-7

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Linkterature: From Word to Web in the group Literary theory: José Ángel García Landa. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." Lecture at the International Conference on Inte […] ]]> 6e054c678a25cb8760a04e7d5431224f Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734510/#acomment-1735274 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:24:38 -0400 To link is to originate: "Blogs work through references to posts in other blogs, through the exchange, referencing, commentary and transformation of information, not so much through supposed originality in authorship: and what is paradoxical is that there is probably just as much originality in blog writing as in any other kind of writing." --…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Linkterature: From Word to Web in the group Literary theory: José Ángel García Landa. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." Lecture at the International Conference on Inte […] ]]> 65b2a7558fa2ef6390965e0343e46ba7 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733510/#acomment-1733774 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:39:43 -0400 I am struck by the event of dissolution (in Spencer's articulation). I wonder how one might think of narrative dissipating into narrativity. Not so much all stories being chapters of a single story as all stories as potential building blocks for other stories. The challenge for me is actually observing a narrative degenerate. The glue is quick…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group Narrative theory and Narratology "The narratives of the world are numberless"; yet, all s […] ]]> b5e96a4097ae919a0a5a585e5b774bde Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730853/#acomment-1731991 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:51:58 -0400 One almost has to have students write something about what they read even if it is simply generating a list of keywords (and have other students comment on what was written). With the expectation of reporting there might be more reading. : )

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post A Bibliography of Literary Theory in the group Literary theory: A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology: https://es1lib.org/booklist/5063/843daa ]]> 8d431a3a680a8bed61f7027e6c2c42c2 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730853/#acomment-1730931 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:26:51 -0500 Is there one of these volumes on history and theory of literary criticism that you would recommend as a text book for an introductory class? Habib seems comprehensive but is accessible to undergraduates. Anyone have an experience teaching with any of the volumes on the posted bibliography?

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post A Bibliography of Literary Theory in the group Literary theory: A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology: https://es1lib.org/booklist/5063/843daa ]]> c8713dbe7d64ac135d9946307277e616 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729065/#acomment-1729066 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:44:31 -0500 Tarta,

The Book of Idleness appears to be a fictional artefact created by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. There may be some French intertexts which feature "la paresse" and can be read not as influences but as elements in a field of associations.

Clément Paensers, L’apologie de la paresse.

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Halluciné. Moi ? Dompteur de tri…

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In reply to - Francois Lachance wrote a new post, The Herb, on the site BERNEVAL The dope on lesbians on dope. Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary. Among the different […] ]]> cdbca36a2c1bee3648843fd0b71db4f0 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727985/#acomment-1728797 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:26:08 -0500 I had in mind less "influence" and more "consilience".

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Literature, History, and Consilience in the group Literary theory: Retropost, 2011: Literature, History, and Consilience https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/02/literature-hi […] ]]> f76e800fd76ae8b920777d2c78d776dd Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727985/#acomment-1728289 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:16:33 -0500 Reading these musings on history and literature I was put in mind of the work of Hayden White and in the mood to read more of him.

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Literature, History, and Consilience in the group Literary theory: Retropost, 2011: Literature, History, and Consilience https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/02/literature-hi […] ]]> f279296003b05ffa7cd2a6f8cc4c7718 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719033/#acomment-1719405 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 22:08:51 -0500 Provided a little reaction in the comments on the blog to this piece on transmedia and the quest for unifying narrative as a motivating factor to consume more stories: https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/12/06/narrative-universes/ Triggered by the authors positioning of "vulnerability", the reaction calls for imagining a less…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Narrative Universes in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Elias, Herlander, and Flávio Almeida (herlanderelias248@gmail.com – email.flavioalmeida@gmail.com ; both […] ]]> 29d0e1df6d03203d3171ef6606d6c50c Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710848/#acomment-1715101 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:59:24 -0400 Morad Farhadpour's description of understanding has wide application.
"Understanding is necessarily practical; its significance is only realised when it is put into practice or performed (like a play or a game)." The positioning has me thinking in a direction a bit orthogonal to translation about the possible relation of hermeneutics to ludology.…[Read more]

In reply to - Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Farhadpour, prismatically translated: philosophical prose and the activist agenda in the group Literary theory chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Translation & Activism ]]> ae590b2792830d2f5fcebeaa59ecb219 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713307/#acomment-1713886 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:27:14 -0400 Interesting that Hamon crops up in this context. Mieke Bal goes on later in the book to acknowledge Hamon:

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An important book article by Hamon [Le personnel du roman] (1983), from which I have borrowed a great deal in this chapter, deals with characters. Hamon treats the most important aspects of the characters and places them in a…[Read more]

In reply to - Francois Lachance edited the post Mieke Bal on Character, Dialectic, and Open-Minded Analysis in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Mieke Bal summarizing the exposition of the nature of character as […] ]]> e81eef67bee3cbc86b818872cabd56ea Francois Lachance edited the post Mieke Bal on Character, Dialectic, and Open-Minded Analysis in the group Narrative theory and Narratology https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/10/15/mieke-bal-on-character-dialectic-and-open-minded-analysis/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:22:08 -0400 Mieke Bal summarizing the exposition of the nature of character as viewed by narratology:

Repetition, accumulation, relations to other characters, and transformations are four different principles that work […]

]]> 02b4505b4c8f4534fe8dcd39c1dd83a9 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711526/#acomment-1713253 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:19:50 -0400 And now to add another arm to the spiral... I want to read those resources on the nature of history that José Angel posted (in anticipation?) https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/09/25/telling-times/

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Understanding Narratives in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Understanding narratives is understanding the world and understanding lives and history, since we s […] ]]> b8cf6ff0e728d11e28ac8451d2c28865 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711526/#acomment-1711882 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:08:10 -0400 An arm on the spiral ... https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/10/09/understanding-narratives/#comment-2465 and thanks to José Angel for sending me back to graduate school and the heady literary and philosophical concepts of possible and fictional worlds and their connection to the actual world.

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Understanding Narratives in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Understanding narratives is understanding the world and understanding lives and history, since we s […] ]]> 5502bffda7e28e7c2029303289062a0d Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711526/#acomment-1711733 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:27:05 -0400 Hints of a hermeneutical circle?

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Understanding Narratives in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Understanding narratives is understanding the world and understanding lives and history, since we s […] ]]> c832b508798d335f3390d02f4ec707e2 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707010/#acomment-1710522 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 01:24:58 -0400 Marília Futre Pinheiro provides a good overview of the ancient Greek sources. She also touches upon modern narratology. I am particularly intrigued by the comparative possibilities in the mention of three tripartite models (Bal, Barthes and Genette) which Futre Pinheiro connects to Aristotle (see pages 23-24).

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In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Thoughts on Narratio in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Futre Pinheiro, Marília. (U of Lisbon). "Thoughts on diegema (narratio) in Ancient Rhetoric and in Mo […] ]]> a02c4365ee4d86f4f16c06b141bdfbde Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708535/#acomment-1708697 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 01:17:42 -0400 José Angel,

I am intrigued in this intro to narrative theory by the description of Genette on description and its relation to narration:

Genette argues that description is not opposed to narration in its representative technique, since it too must be submitted to the successivity of language. But the successive nature of the descriptive…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Narrative Theory @Wayback Machine in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Narrative Theory @ Wayback Machine: ]]> a8394fa585ecaafa7d42a2b309aadba1 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706278/#acomment-1708301 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:57:29 -0400 Maj concludes by way of example: "Figuratively speaking, in contemporary fantasy or SF novel storyworld becomes prior to the storyline – it does not guide through the world (as the character in 18th century voyage imaginaire could have) or foretell the story (as appendices in early fantastic novels usually did) but provides the recipient with trans…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Allotopia in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Maj, Krzysztof M. "From Two-Worldliness to Allotopia: Towards Philosophical-Literary Approach to World-Building N […] ]]> 12ed3a18b76d3dc7a48cb062ebce920b Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707596/#acomment-1708252 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:31:29 -0400 Following the textual links in José Angel's post, I came across this statement by Norman Holland in his reply to Joseph Carroll: "texts do not impose anything on readers. Readers construct texts." This seems to suggest complete free play. As a reader resisting imposition, I suggest that texts propose and readers dispose -- in the sense to incline…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Social, not Individual Adaptation in the group Literary theory: Social, Not Individual Adaptation: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-not-individual-adaptation.html ]]> 8428c9bc203e027e9eb078c796856d22 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704705/#acomment-1707124 Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:21:31 -0400 Raphaël Baroni concludes the survey:

[T]ellability could become a key concept for exploring the interface between life experience and its narrativisation, because it addresses directly the question of how and why some incidents become the object of a narration and others do not.

It is telling that the survey itself tells a tale. It is…

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In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Tellability in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Baroni, Raphaël."Tellability." In Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hühn et al. Berlin and New York: Walter de […] ]]> 7c74091395f82e9dab7b53a9c23b3499 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705465/#acomment-1706556 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:51:51 -0400 Intrigued by Comuzzi's championing the analogy between genre and gene and posted a reply that extends the analogy to gene splicing and cultural work ... https://literarytheory.hcommons.org/2020/08/16/lyric-poetry-as-a-narrative-speech-genre/

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Lyric Poetry as a Narrative Speech Genre in the group Literary theory: Comuzzi (Tataru), Lumila. "Lyric Poetry as a Narrative Speech Genre: On the Dialogue between Genre T […] ]]> 54b9a45a8d4b1ca6e74f01a6b7c8f20f Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693530/#acomment-1704149 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:55:51 -0400 The concluding paragraph provides a rich selection of possible comparative studies of hybridity in genre. Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez writes:

Western narratives like Ulysses [Joyce], In Our Time [Hemingway], One Hundred Years of Solitude [García Márquez], The Garden of Eden [Hemingway], Speak Memory [Nabokov], or Malloy [Beckett], or Japanese ones lik…

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In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Emergent Narratological Explanatory Frames in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Beatriz Penas -  "Emergent Narratological Explanatory Frames: From (n […] ]]> 13e3eedb00304cd9b08f68a1e25a3580 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697717/#acomment-1701950 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:48:49 -0400 Early on in this interview in response to a question about ethnology, Lévi-Strauss responds: To critique is to attempt to analyze, to attempt to understand, to attempt to create linkages with other modes of living or modes of thinking. (critiquer c'est essayer d'analyser, c'est essayer de comprendre, c'est essayé de mettre en rapport avec d…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Apostrophes: Claude Lévi-Strauss in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Pivot, Bernard. "1984: Claude Lévi-Strauss invité d'Apostrophes | Archive INA." Video. (Apo […] ]]> 9069260b51fd386822c9d787761aa2c0 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1694726/#acomment-1699170 Sun, 19 Jul 2020 01:13:59 -0400 José Angel, this note is tantalizing. I want to learn more about how Susan Horton's book (Interpreting Interpreting) configures Jakobson's communication model as a set of levels for interpretation. "The different levels of analysis make a particular detail appear as the embodiment of one or another of the six factors of linguistic communication…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Metacriticism as Intervention in the group Literary theory: Metacriticism as Intervention: https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/metac.html ]]> f08cc02fb19415e86408442e0eed3938 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695973/#acomment-1698395 Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:39:55 -0400 At 37:40 of the podcast "Narrative at 25" there is a small gem in this panel discussion of the history and aspirations of the journal Narrative

Gerald Prince:"Very often it is only like [...] only ten lines in a piece that actually are portable. [...] A little detail which is truly informative to a particular reader."

BTW -- little detail - the…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Narrative Society Podcast in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: Narrative Society Podcast ]]> eac22a24b1c85f09185d4186c06d1144 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695258/#acomment-1697419 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:08:26 -0400 I agree with your positioning of Gad Saad's discourse. The interview took place in the context of the Sustainable Narratives conference organized by Vichaar Manthan which is devoted "To learn, live and share Hindu values in order to help build a better cohesive, yet plural British society." Through Neeti Rao's questions and remarks in her…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post The Parasitic Mind in the group Literary theory: The Parasitic Mind: https://youtu.be/AUDZgltgHYI ]]> 67aa035843171235b1d9ef6ec09ce544 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695258/#acomment-1697251 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:56:15 -0400 Ironically, Gad Saad's deployment of the metaphor of "ideas as pathogens" goes metastatic. A meta-discursive treatment and more nuanced approach can be found in the book by Peta Mitchell, Contagious Metaphor, an interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Other publications on contagion…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post The Parasitic Mind in the group Literary theory: The Parasitic Mind: https://youtu.be/AUDZgltgHYI ]]> 57a352d2c152d0102674b25972634fdd Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687766/#acomment-1696294 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 21:22:16 -0400 At 48 minutes in, Daniel Ferrer proposes that the notion of implied author (from Wayne Booth) be set alongside a passage from Paul Valéry about how the author in the process of composing makes a series of choices out of an aleatory flow. Ferrer invites us to consider that the chance operations of reception are inscribed in the moment of genesis:…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA wrote a new post Daniel Ferrer, Accident et récit de génèse in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: https://youtu.be/qVwLYB2k6Ww ]]> 6ab18c40f1602ae5fe01b2734bf121f5 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686161/#acomment-1695965 Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:39:40 -0400 As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin's notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]

In reply to - Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group Narrative theory and Narratology This article introduces t […] ]]> 21d0065ce15d9d16be02f22b418e585c Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686161/#acomment-1695582 Tue, 07 Jul 2020 01:01:27 -0400 Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin's novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy's "dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]

In reply to - Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group Narrative theory and Narratology This article introduces t […] ]]> d304983ffaae3906c4f8c9dbe53bdf01 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685719/#acomment-1695009 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:51:00 -0400 I really enjoyed the way the argument for a liquid poetics flowed so fluently from the presentation of examples. Given the place of Ralegh (as Ocean), I wonder if the boundaries might be breached in other fashion by calling in the paratext of the letter to Ralegh. Towards the end of the letter, Spenser writes "But by occasion hereof, many other…[Read more]

In reply to - Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group Literary theory From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derri […] ]]> 0cd00484fbc9fce41021d5391d742f8c Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693732/#acomment-1693977 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:54:50 -0400 In the brief interview for Les Napoleons, Baroni challenges the idea that cross-modal narration no longer presents stories ("intrigues") and presents worlds ("mondes"). He assures listeners that there is still a place for plot-driven narration and points towards a certain hierarchy among media. He also alludes, tantalizingly, to the need to…[Read more]

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Baroni - Fear in the group Narrative theory and Narratology: "Fear: A Chat with Raphaël Baroni." Video. (Jan. 2018). Online at Vimeo.* 2020 ]]> 31261409d5d14f26794209478502ff6a Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689675/#acomment-1690759 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:28:48 -0400 Christopher Edwards thank you for depositing On Being Dimensional. I am intrigued by the model that emerges from the traversal of the topology of the dimensions. I am wondering if the "dislocation" events can be likened to acts of reading. The paper mentions dislocation as the motor for moving from proposition to deposition to composition to…[Read more]

In reply to - Christopher Edwards deposited On Being Dimensional in the group Literary theory This paper addresses a curious pattern of interlocking relationships. This pattern unfolds in a fixed form of ever-changing content, […] ]]> 3f86f0de781ffecc295e066d5d621a0c Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687492/#acomment-1689452 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:04:55 -0400 Manfred Engel, thank you for depositing the introductory essay to this collection. I am intrigued by your article on the German poets described as "Comparing the literaricized dream-report with the empirical one shows the workings of two different concepts of factual dream-notation: whereas the latter tries to remain faithful to the memorized…[Read more]

In reply to - Manfred Engel deposited Writing the Dream / Écrire le rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017 (Cultural Dream Studies; 1) -- Contents and Preface in the group Literary […] ]]> e6c46d7d3e633c32cda6c16a58bdcbc6 Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687777/#acomment-1688147 Fri, 22 May 2020 00:05:15 -0400 Interesting panel from which we take away that Bourdieu does not cite Proust in relation to temporality (unlike other authors such as Faulkner and Woolf). Bourdieu does draw upon Proust on the construction of pastiche as a form of incorporation of the habitus. Which of course opens up the question of the relation of pastiche to temporality.

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Le Proust de Bourdieu in the group Literary theory: Sapiro, Gisèle, and Marielle Macé. "Le Proust de Bourdieu." Video lecture. YouTube (CRAL) 22 June 2015.* 2020 ]]> a432fdb00603aba7062fe2be15c130fc Francois Lachance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687772/#acomment-1687773 Tue, 19 May 2020 11:15:52 -0400 Hello José Angel,

Where and how does one sign up for the Literary Theory Group? Some instructions would be helpful to a plodding soul like me. : )

I predict that the Literary Theory Group will grow by at least one.

François

In reply to - José Angel GARCÍA LANDA edited the post Literary theory group and blog in the group Literary theory: Literary Theory group and blog: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2018/10/literary-theory-group-and-blog.html ]]>