emplotment

To detach words from what is already a second level of narrative emplotment and to examine them in isolation will not give us oral tradition but a studied abstraction p.244.

Archive 2009-03-01 James F. McGrath 2009

To detach words from what is already a second level of narrative emplotment and to examine them in isolation will not give us oral tradition but a studied abstraction p.244.

Review of Jesus, the Voice, and the Text James F. McGrath 2009

These two modes of emplotment represent end-point extremes, in that one says we are masters of the world and can defeat death, while the other says that we are captives of the world, and can never win against death.

Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

It might be thought these then represent the only two possible modes, but inside these extremes Rabindra identified two other modes of emplotment, which he called tragedy and comedy.

Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

It might be thought these then represent the only two possible modes, but inside these extremes Rabindra identified two other modes of emplotment, which he called tragedy and comedy.

Immersed Bruce Schauble 2008

These two modes of emplotment represent end-point extremes, in that one says we are masters of the world and can defeat death, while the other says that we are captives of the world, and can never win against death.

Immersed Bruce Schauble 2008

At this point, it is appropriate to enlist History in the debate, and to introduce Hayden White, whose scandal for orthodox historians consisted in his denial of the historical fact as such and his insistence on the primacy of historical ‘emplotment’ (his term, borrowed later on by Ricoeur).

Fredric Jameson · In Hyperspace · LRB 9 September 2015 Fredric Jameson 2022