In such narratives, the form of narratives is metaphoric in signification - metaphoric signifiers forming a chain of substitutions along a vertical axis. Of interest is the claim by some linguists that those in the Modernist tradition who hold to the imaginary that metaphor is the fundamental property of thought and life tend to presume that thought takes precedence over language - a well established belief. Questioning the foregoing are poststructuralists who question Modernism's essentialism. For them, narrative writing is not so much a writing at a distance in time and space about past experiences that are presumed to be in the living present, those but for the recovery. Here, meanings seem to float.
Recent writings support such imaginary.
No doubt, such dwelling is a dwelling in the midst of ambivalence and ambiguity. The texture of the conference title encourages me to anticipate voices that articulate their positioning midst the doubling in the title. I am grateful indeed that the Conference was called in part to honor me. But, in truth, I am more grateful for the gathering of conferees willing to share with others their understandings of the web of relationships between curriculum and narrative. All rights reserved.