| Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael B. Smith - Philosophy - 1993 - 438 pages
...form of finality, and on metaphysical arrogance. "It is not the object of the story," Benjamin wrote, "to convey a happening per se, which is the purpose...storyteller in order to pass it on as experience to those listenCRITICAL ESSAYS ing."28 It can indeed be said that there is no longer any experience in this... | |
| Lee Quinby - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 478 pages
...paradoxically, the dissolution of boundaries between reader and character creates rather than reduces space. It is not the object of the story to convey a happening...storyteller in order to pass it on as experience to those listening.22 Fidela's unknowable future stretches the comprehension of the young writerto-be, on whom... | |
| Dudley Andrew - Performing Arts - 1997 - 356 pages
...purpose of information; rather, it embeds itself in the life of the storyteller in order to pass it only as experience to those listening. It thus bears the...much as the earthen vessel bears the marks of the potters hand."40 Photography is an enigma since it seems able both to capture the individual contingency... | |
| Peter C. Lutze - Performing Arts - 1998 - 308 pages
...communicating information (like most documentaries), nor of providing sensations (like most feature films). "It is not the object of the story to convey a happening...order to pass it on as experience to those listening. Thus it bears the marks of the storyteller much as the earthen vessel bears the marks of the potters... | |
| Daniel James - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 340 pages
...storyteller. The storyteller could translate individual memory and experience and offer it to the community: "It is not the object of the story to convey a happening...order to pass it on as experience to those listening" (59). But Benjamin recognized that this was at best an insecure wager, citing Proust himself to the... | |
| Peter Twohig, Vera Kalitzkus - Attitude to Death - 2004 - 208 pages
..."It is not," he says, "the object of the story" - and I suggest to substitute story with paintingIt is not the object of the story to convey a happening...se, which is the purpose of information; rather it [the story] embeds it [a happening] in the life of the storyteller in order to pass it on as experience... | |
| Shane Gunster - Social Science - 2004 - 372 pages
...not aim to convey an event per se, which is the purpose of information; rather, it embeds the event in the life of the storyteller in order to pass it on as experience to those listening.'83 In this process of mnemic integration, the storyteller teaches by example, showing others... | |
| Mieke Bal - Criticism - 2004 - 456 pages
...the happening that cannot be told — to transmit the war, the corpse, the suicide — to his son. It is not the object of the story to convey a happening per xe, which is the purpose of information; rather, it embeds it in the life of the storyteller in order... | |
| Martin Jay - History - 2005 - 454 pages
...contrast between all these forms and the story, which is one of the oldest forms of communication. It is not the object of the story to convey a happening perse, which is the purpose of information; rather it embeds it in the life of the storyteller in order... | |
| Martin Jay - History - 2005 - 454 pages
...one of the oldest forms of communication. It is not the object of the story to convey a happening/w se, which is the purpose of information; rather it...order to pass it on as experience to those listening." 82 Because it preserved the temporal distance between subject and object, while nonetheless linking... | |
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