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Fisher's Narrative Paradigm
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"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 |
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Elements of Narrative
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Narrator
Characters Plot Setting |
Walter Fisher
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Character in the story or observer of events; recounts/tells story
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Narrator
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People that function within the narrative
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Characters
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Underlying structure or pattern of actions and causality in the narrative
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plot
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Fusion of all the details of the story external to the characters
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Setting
Context |
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Narrative Probability
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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
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Narrative Fidelity
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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
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Fantasy Theme Analysis
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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
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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
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Elements of The Pentad
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Act
Agent Agency Scene Purpose |
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Objective behind the actions, a decision that must be made
What the rhetoric suggests |
Purpose
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Major action by the protagonist
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Act
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Scene
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Setting, Situation, Context
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Agent
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Protagonist
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Cultural belief system on how the world is/should be
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Ideology
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Hegemony
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Dominance of one group over the other; Accepted power, not forced
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