Posted in beginnings, ambition, stories, poetry, milton on Jul 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
So I’m still letting the dust settle in my head–I assume tomorrow’s exam will only raise the clouds up again–and therefore I’m not really ready to start reflecting on this class yet. But some things I know: I’ve been changed (for the better, I’d like to think); I’ve thought about things in new combinations, new […]
Posted in storytelling, delay, stories, milton on Jul 21st, 2008 Comments Off
So today’s talk of typology was hugely interesting and now I sort of feel like I should go read the Bible through a couple times and try and catch some of this stuff myself. But seeing as I am, like everyone else I think, being swallowed up by a paper at the moment, that doesn’t […]
Posted in storytelling, responsibility, choice, ambition, stories on Jul 8th, 2008 Comments Off
I added this to our class Delicious feed, but I think it’s worth bringing up again (or in a more obvious way). Ira Glass conducted an interview largely about storytelling. The whole thing is worth watching, but what I want to highlight is in part three. I actually followed Emma’s lead from […]
Posted in writes, stories, acts, viable, hwat, consitutteds, oridnary, canonical, connecting, culture, deep, reprsent, consensus when, and, the, 1990, meaning, disagreement, bruner, jerome, General on Nov 14th, 2007 Comments Off
In Acts of Meaning (1990), Jerome Bruner writes,
To be in a viable culture is to be bound in a set of connecting stories, connecting even though the stories may not represent a consensus.
When there is a breakdown in a culture (or even within a microculture like the family) it can usually be traced to one […]