In trying to define the tirade between the author, narrator, and reader Roland Barthes’ work will be useful. Barthes seems to focus not on the person responsible for the text, but rather on the responsibility of the creativity of the text itself, almost to a point where it seems the readers job is not to [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Barthes
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Narrative Theory
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The next big issue to tackle is defining “narrative theory” and to justify its importance. This should be a relatively straightforward endeavor (knock on wood) because of work I’ve done in the past. I intend to rely heavily on the criticism of Gerard Gerard, so that should also be fun.
Messengers
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Antony and Cleopatra is a play of travel and of messangers. The messengers are the first and most obvious narrators in my analysis. Although Shakespeare has many more overt narrators, who offer pithy sayings and philosophies of life that are essentially authorial insertions into the text of the play, these are actually poor examples of narration [...]
Project Design
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So. I’m looking for a universalizing theory of literature, and I’m looking to demonstrate how such a theory can be applied and in so doing apply the theory to the cannonical member in the set of works of English literature, to wit, Shakespeare.
Narrative Theory addresses the problem of authorship and the problem of responsibility in literature [...]
