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Fisher's Narrative Paradigm
"The most basic human symbolic response to rhetorical exigencies is storytelling"
Argues that humanity has always tried to merge Logic & Poetic in narrative and stories
Elements of Narrative
Narrator
Characters
Plot
Setting
Walter Fisher
Character in the story or observer of events; recounts/tells story
Narrator
People that function within the narrative
Characters
Underlying structure or pattern of actions and causality in the narrative
plot
Fusion of all the details of the story external to the characters
Setting
Context
Narrative Probability
Formal features of story conceived as a discrete sequence of thought and/or action in life or literature
-Concerns whether a story coheres together or contradicts
Fisher's Paradigm
Narrative Fidelity
Concerns the truth qualities of the story, degree it accords with logic of good reasons: soundness of its reasoning and the value of its values
-Concerned with truth quality of the narrative
Fisher's Fidelity
Fantasy Theme Analysis
Means of accounting for how groups of people use stories to see the world in similar ways
4 Step process
1) Become familiar with text
2) Find patterns among dramatic elements of characters, plot and setting
3) Creatively reconstruct rhetorical vision
4) Ask probing quesitons about patterns of fantasy themes discovered
Ernest Bormann
A search model that provides a ready-made set of topics or starting points to get us thinking systematically about drams embedded in all messages
-Facilitates both critical and creative thinking
The Pentad by K. Burke
Elements of The Pentad
Act
Agent
Agency
Scene
Purpose
Objective behind the actions, a decision that must be made
What the rhetoric suggests
Purpose
Major action by the protagonist
Act
Scene
Setting, Situation, Context
Agent
Protagonist
Cultural belief system on how the world is/should be
Ideology
Hegemony
Dominance of one group over the other; Accepted power, not forced