{"id":192,"date":"2017-06-14T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:34:56","slug":"the-power-of-narratology-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"The power of narrative and the pleasures of interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This page is still under construction. What follows are merely notes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Case study 1: example based on Raymond Queneau\u2019s\u00a0<em>Exercises in Style<\/em> to show how different narrative techniques change what is ostensibly the same story.<\/p>\n<p>Case study 2: Murder of Thomas Beckett. Shows the ideological nature of narrative. Also, how narrative shapes something that might be deemed objectively true \u2013 they to a degree create the events they represent (Kellner in\u00a0<em>Teaching Narrative Theory<\/em> 91-2).<\/p>\n<p>Case study 3: example of responses to\u00a0<em>Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, showing how different people read stories differently \u2013 but in equally important ways \u2013 depending on their attention to language, how they read the ending (part of plot), manner in which they \u2018read\u2019 characters (is Huck overly influenced by Tom), tone (is it funny?) and so on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Each of these case studies therefore makes a specific point about narrative &#8211; that it shapes and creates rather than reflects understandings and reality; that no narrative is entirely objective or objectively true; and that there are reasons why people can (rightly) interpret the same narrative and the same narrative elements differently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">This completes the <a href=\"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=115\">Introduction to Narrative<\/a> unit. You may either return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=66\">front page<\/a> of this narrative module or proceed to the next unit of this module: <a href=\"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/?page_id=199\">Elements of narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is still under construction. What follows are merely notes. Case study 1: example based on Raymond Queneau\u2019s\u00a0Exercises in Style to show how different narrative techniques change what is ostensibly the same story. Case study 2: Murder of Thomas Beckett. Shows the ideological nature of narrative. Also, how narrative shapes something that might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/1427"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/licor.hivolda.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}