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Notes from a his chapter "Narration, Reason, and Community" in _Memory, Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences._ eds Lewis and Sandra Hinchman (1997)

I think I read a little bit about narrative paradigm back in undergrad, maybe in my intro to lit crit class, since that seems to be the class that I got the most theory in (and we read the most in).

I'm trying to find a good framework (looking for bulleted lists) to see if some of what I'm finding in the code can fit and if I can makes some sense out of what I've found through this paradigm.

Fisher gives me a lot to work with:

From Dewey: community only exists because we are interested in others and because we want to "tak[e] part in conjoint and cooperative doings" (3087-308).

Again from Dewey: community therefore exists only as a result of communication, which Dewey defines as "a process of sharing experience [until] it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both parties who partake in it" (308). I'd just like to stop right there and say that Dewey just stole nearly my entire argument. He's only missing the last loop back: where the cycle of community construction and "disposition" construction happen in a continuous cycle.

But then Dewey actually DOES say, kind of, what I'm thinking: "Society...not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication" (308).

"...genuine communication cannot be the usual forms of monologic discourse. Whenever communication is strictly monologic, whether in debate, in conversations, in friendly chats, or in lovers' talk, real relationship is nonexistent" (310).

more in a bit...