SF’s obscurantist use of ‘narrative’ and untying the knots in language to understand what is really being said…
As mentioned at the time, Declan Kearney’s blog for the BelTel was remarkable for a number of reasons, not least that apparently disjunctured reference to ‘narrative’. Nowadays there are academics in place who study narrative not as part of literature, but as part of a separate study of how stories affect the way we perceive the world. Interestingly Dan Hodges recounts his first encounter with the phenomenon in New Labour: When I used to work for the Labour Party much of our time …