The World as Story was interesting to me because it gave me a chance to hear scholars from other disciplines more formally introduce narratology into their work. While ideas about story formation and interpretation implicitly underlie almost everything else I engage in, I hadn’t seen the kinds of direct arguments for the relevance of narrative […]

Which kinds of texts should I include in my dataset? Obviously this raises some ethical considerations–besides my own personal information, much of the text I’ve written and saved will include others’ data and, in some cases, intellectual property, where I’m responding to or quoting heavily from another text. My impulse currently is not to draw […]