VIII. Syntagmatic Approaches to Narrative (Mar. 6)

Topics: Emphasis on syntagmatic dimension of narrative, which was obliterated by Levi-Strauss, as a means to put time (history, transformation) into narratives, to investigate the creation of meaning through narratives, and to more fully develop a true structuralist analysis that integrates the syntagmatic with the paradigmatic dimesions.

Turner, Terence
1977 Narrative Structure and Mythopoesis: A Critique and Reformulation of Structuralist Conceptions of Myth, Narrative and Poetics. Arethusa 10:103-163.
[excerpt only, pp.103-127]

Turner, Terence
1985 Animal Symbolism, Totemism, and the Structure of Myth. In Animal Myths and Metaphors in South America, ed. by Gary Urton, pp. 49-106. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

T Dillon, Mary, and Thomas Abercrombie
1988 The Destroying Christ: An Aymara Myth of Conquest. Chap. 3 in Rethinking History and Myth.

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