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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience And Self, Natallia Stelmak Schabner
For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience And Self, Natallia Stelmak Schabner
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation responds to the challenge to narrativity posed by Galen Strawson in “Against Narrativity,” where he claims that not everyone is Narrative by nature and that there is no reason to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking over time that is an inherent mental activity and essential for experience of one’s Self. I make my case through examinations of our experience of time, our use of language, how we plan, and our sense of Self. In the first chapter, I show that considering Narrativity as viewing life as …
Ideological Infection In Dostoevsky's "Demons", Sam Joshua Reed
Ideological Infection In Dostoevsky's "Demons", Sam Joshua Reed
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This project is an exploration of ideology in Dostoevsky's 1871 novel "Demons." In this work, Dostoevsky portrays the connection between utopianism and extremism. This project explores how romantic and political idealism becomes the foundation for violence and terrorism, through the relationship of the 1840's liberal Stepan Trofimovich Verhovensky and his nihilistic sons.