Posts tagged ‘Configuration’

  1. Paul Ricoeur’s Mimetic Narrativity, in Summary

    7 min read

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

  2. Time, Narrative and the Aporetic

    6 min read

    Narrated time changes the structure of the cosmos, making its shape more human

  3. How (not) to Understand a Story

    14 min read

    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 fundamentally problematic. Beware!

  4. The Limits of Narrative

    16 min read

    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 narrative interpretation sometimes gets hijacked or pushed too far and encroaches on the territory of other ways of speaking. There are limits to narrative.

  5. The Surface and the Depths: Characters, Character and Stories

    20 min read

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

  6. Configuration and Narrative Emplotment

    7 min read

    Configuration is the second moment of mimetic narrative, all about emplotment — about characters, events and the point of a story as a whole, about following the rules and transgressing them too.