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May 17, 2024
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GERST 6110 - [Narration and Knowledge] (crosslisted) COML 6892 , ENGL 6953 Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.
P. Fleming.
This seminar investigates the unique modes of knowledge embodied in various forms of ‘literary’ narration-from myth, epic, and the novel to the fairytale, anecdote, and case history. At stake in the seminar are the ways in which storytelling and its intensive theorization provide a form of knowledge sui generis about experience, temporality, consciousness, subjectivity, sociality, history, etc. This “epic side of truth” (Benjamin) or “non-conceptual thinking” (Blumenberg) circumscribes epistemic insights that can neither be reduced to logos nor forsaken if one aspires to a fuller understanding of existence in its multiplicity and singularity.
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