Understanding narratives is understanding the world and understanding lives and history, since we structure and understand the world and lives and history through narratives.
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Hints of a hermeneutical circle?
Ah with the mention of spiral … may I add another arm? The understanding from text to the actual world could be modelled by the framework on possible and fictional worlds. I have in mind especially the thinking of Lubomír Doležel.
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The possible-worlds framework enables us to reassert the status of historiography as an activity of noesis: its possible worlds are models of the actual past. Fiction making is the activity of poesis: fictional worlds are imaginary possible alternatives to the actual worlds
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I leave the question of trans world identity and the relation of noesis and poses — another arm of the spiral for another time.
For a good digest of the work of Lubomír Doležel see:
https://semioticon.com/semiotix/2012/12/a-semiotic-profile-lubomir-dolezel/
Noesis and poesis would seem to be, though, also involved in a dialectic relationship of mutual implication or dialectics, rather than being only polarities, which they are in a way. Thanks for the ref., François!
And now to add another arm to the spiral… I want to read those resources on the nature of history that José Angel posted (in anticipation?) https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/09/25/telling-times/