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Inleiding: het belang van de lijst KU Leuven
A Theory of Narrative in Culture KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. This essay aims to clarify how literary and nonliterary narratives function in society and culture. To reach this broad goal, it first presents a general framework inspired by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the American New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt. The framework centers on the notions of circulation and negotiation. Stories circulate from one field to another, thereby ...
Reading lists: The coding of Max Havelaar KU Leuven
© Luc Herman & Bart Vervaeck. The studies of literary lists start from a strong bipolar opposition between lists and narratives. In a second step they relativize the antagonism, but because of the initial dualism, they are forced to come up with abstract and idealized definitions of lists and narratives. This article presents an alternative approach, which starts from the idea that both lists and narratives arise in the interaction between ...