M1:18.10.2010/ Prof.Kate Marshall/Narrative Infrastructures: Architecture, Narrative, Fiction

Narrative Infrastructures: Architecture, Media, Fiction In this lecture I will show how infrastructure, or what the American novelist Henry Roth calls “the strange world behind the walls,” works not only as a highly visible and privileged topic of fiction, but also as an important way of thinking about narrative form. Reading infrastructures quite literally as narrative objects – and thinking about the narrative infrastructures that order and orient everyday experience –... Read More