March 23, 2001
Stories Abounding
"Numberless are the world's narratives." So began Roland Barthes's "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative," published in 1966 -- an essay that inaugurated the new discipline of narratology. "There isn't, there has never been anywhere any people without narrative," wrote Barthes. Stories (unlike poems) can be translated, transposed to other media, summarized; they can be retold "in other words" and yet still be recognizably "the same story." Narrative, which, according to
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