Sculpture by Man Ray
Science and Nescience: Narratology Stripped Bare, The Case of the Narrator

Sylvia Patron examines the close association, which goes as far as identification, between narratology and the theory of the existence of a narrator in all narratives. This Intervention is the first translation of Patron's article, “Science et nescience: la narratologie mise à nu. Le cas du narrateur,” which develops some of the central arguments from her books.

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Digital Technologies for Exploring Prosody: A Brief Historical Overview

What are the historical and existing efforts for employing digital technologies to explore or generate prosody? From the perspectives of information science and textual analysis, Setsuko Yokoyama works with literary scholars and archivists to facilitate critical dialogues on literary artifacts. One of her research aims is to highlight how digital technologies have informed the epistemologies of prosody. In this essay, she uses Hartman’s Scansion Machine to begin sharing her digital prosody projects and prosody-related visualization methodologies.

The Hermeneutics of Babies
Babies are usually the stuff of private life, clichés, and endearing memories that we check out as we set foot on campus grounds. Yet babies are the greatest--and arguably the cutest--hermeneutic subjects.