Implicit Narrativity Reading Group 1 (Richard Walsh )

OCT 25, Fri, 4-5.30 pm: NCL Visiting Fellow Professor RICHARD WALSH will lead interdisciplinary conversations on Porter H. Abbott, ‘Narrativity’ in The Living Handbook of Narratology as part of our termly investigation of ‘implicit narrativity’.

Join us online for an interdisciplinary roundtable!

Richard Walsh is Professor of Narrative Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. His work has concerned aspects of the relation between narrative and cognition for many years, ranging over issues such as narrative and selfhood, the narrative representation of systemic processes, dreaming as narration, and narrative cognition as a distinct and rudimentary mode of sense-making. Central to his inquiry into these cognitive themes is a conception of the reciprocity between reflexiveness and the implicit in narrative form, which entails a critical perspective upon the idea of implicit narrativity under most current interpretations.

The Narrative and Cognition Lab provides an opportunity to work through the complexities latent in the idea of implicit narrativity, and shed light upon the network of concepts within which it sits.

This event will be chaired by Dr Marco Bernini from the Narrative and Cognition Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.