Vermont Humanities Fall Conference: Why Do Stories Matter? Telling Lies - Storytelling and Negative Capability
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Welcome & Opening Remarks followed by Maria Tatar's "Telling Lies: Storytelling and Negative Capability." Vladimir Nabokov tells us that literature was born when a child came running home crying wolf and there was no wolf. The lies we tell in our cultural stories may transmit higher truths about the human condition, but just as often they send mixed messages and scrambled signals. Harvard professor Maria Tatar will investigate how “simple” stories like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Bluebeard” challenge us to think harder as we try to decode the cultural.
For more information, visit http://www.vermonthumanities.org/fall-conference-2015-why-do-stories-matter/
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