“I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.” NaturalPsychologySubjectsBottomPhysicsBunchNarrativeQueensConventionalSociologyNatural HistoryTop Down Author:Richard Lewontin
“George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.” BookMatterShowsPoliticalLanguageSubjectsTricksNarrativeDirtyPoeticCrucialCelebrationMasterpieceSequenceSubject MatterSurveysGreatest Book Author:Graham Joyce
“Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.” MatterChoicesFictionSubjectsMoralityNarrativeNovelistsPlotSubject MatterBewildered Book:Outlander Source: Outlander
“In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.” MadeBookNovelSubjectsSkinsBreathsExtraordinaryConvictionNarrativePhrasesClayErotic Author:Alberto Manguel
“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.” TodayFilmPoliticalPleasureCasesStudyGroupsSubjectsMovementTaughtTheoryProjectsFeministLiberationNarrativeCinemaVisualsCrucialAcademicInterventionRealisedUsefulnessPsychoanalyticStudy Group Author:Laura Mulvey
“There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.” WorldFeltSubjectsNarrative Author:John Madden
“The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.” StoriesUseEnvironmentGreaterSubjectsMediaStyleReaderProfoundDepthIncludingNarrativeComplexityDigitalInherentInvolvementLinearInputBedtimeCollaboratorsTop DownDemocratization Author:Fred Ritchin
“Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.” PeopleHumansRealMightHuman BeingsMoralVirtueSubjectsMereSavedPunishmentBackgroundsNarrativeContrastNamelessCapital PunishmentDeliberationReal HumanFaceless Author:Cass Sunstein