Posts tagged ‘Reading’

1. The Limits of Narrative

   November 2017 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.

2. How (not) to Understand a Story

   November 2017 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!