Posts tagged ‘Refiguration’

1. Paul Ricoeur’s Mimetic Narrativity, in Summary

   November 2017 7 min read

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

2. 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.

3. Refiguration, Understanding and Transformation

   October 2017 19 min read

   Refiguration is the third movement of narrative, the stage in which a story is restored to the real world of action and suffering. It is in the reader that the story reaches its conclusion.