Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Trump Stories: An Antimimetic, Unnatural, and Postmodern Narratology

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The last of the four approaches to narrative discussed in Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012) is the antimimetic ap...
Friday, October 29, 2021

The Trump Stories: A Mind-Oriented Narratology

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Mind-oriented narrative theory focuses on how the human mind uses narrative to create worlds that humans can imaginatively enter and, presum...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The Trump Stories: A Feminist Narratology

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Feminism forms the basis for Robyn Warhol's presentation of the second approach to narratology in Narrative Theory  (2012) by Herman, et...
Monday, October 25, 2021

The Trump Stories: A Rhetorical Narratology

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I've become frustrated with my study of Trump stories, and I realize that I need a working narrative theory, a narratology. Fortunately,...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Trumpism and Me

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I have more to say about how to situate myself within Trumpism. My first tendency is to explain how I am not a part of that ecosystem, to de...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Critical Complexity and Four Cs

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What I have in mind is applying Preiser's program of critical complexity to my issue with Trumpism among my friends and family. I'm ...
Friday, April 23, 2021

The Problem of Complexity: Summary

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In the final chapter of her dissertation, Preiser summarizes her argument by looking at how her interpretation of the problem of complexity ...