Narrating Nature – ANEST Workshop

Astrid Møller-Olsen (Presenter)

Chinese Studies

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

Description

An international online workshop of the Asia-Norway Network for Environmental Storytelling, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Period	2021 Jul 2 → 2021 Jul 3
Event type	Workshop
Location	Stavanger, NorwayShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Languages and Literature
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified

Free keywords

environmental humanities, ecocriticism, trees, temoprality, time, narratology

Documents & Links

If there are such things as anthropological universals, the human propensity to tell stories must surely count among them. As Roland Barthes remarks in one of the foundational texts of structuralist narratology, “there is not, there has never been anywhere, any people without narrative”: “Like life itself, it is there, international, transhistorical, transcultural.” Because narratives surround us like the air we breathe, they are often difficult to get into focus. They come to us as spoken or written words, as images both static and moving, even as tactile markings. Narratives animate news reporting and courtroom proceedings, academic discourse and religious sermons, high school textbooks and political campaign rhetoric, popular songs and casual gossip. In all their forms, stories draw us in with the promise of meaningful order. They appear to us as bearers of truth or agents of manipulation – and we express our assent to and our distrust of them by telling yet more stories.