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Contested Issues in Contemporary Narratology: Theory and Practice
The 2026 institute will focus on a set of issues debated by contemporary narratologists, all of which have important theoretical and practical consequences: authorial intention; social context and narrative form; unreliable narration, fictionality, AI narratives, climate change, and narrative medicine. We’ll look at how different theoretical conceptions of narrative---rhetorical, intersectional, cognitive, and others—address these issues and pay special attention to the two-way traffic between relevant theory and primary narratives. A full syllabus will be available shortly.