Intriguing list of questions from the Thursday 4:30 class:
From Ryan reading:
- What is the point in redefining narrative as anything more than ‘cause and effect’?
- Ryan notes ‘we can never be sure that sender and receiver have the same story in mind.’ Korsakow films allow for greater freedom of interpretation. Do you see this as a positive or negative? How can the filmmaker control interpretations?
- Ryan argues that sender and receiver will always have a different story in mind. Would this be a negative for us when trying to convey a story or meaning with Korsakow?
- Do you believe the meaning of narrative has been diluted through its descriptive use in society?
- What is the difference between the components of story and discourse?
- When considering non-linear narrative, how important is Ryan’s sixth criteria for identifying narrative; the notion of ‘closure’?
From Bogost reading:
- Apart from reminding us that narrative is made up of ‘everyday stuff,’ what can lists achieve as a literary device?
- Why and to what end are we to be freed from the ‘tyranny of representation’?
- Bogost writes ‘lists do not just rebuff the connecting parts of language but rebuff the connecting of being itself.’ How do lists do this?
- If a list was to be created through a random non-human selection is a narrative still created?