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Prologue (23.4) daniel-hromada ()


Prologue (23.4)

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On Teaching

Teaching is the deliberate use of forms of telling—and showing, asking, correcting, and staging—to produce learning.

Lehren ist der bewusste Einsatz von Formen des Mitteilens — sowie des Zeigens, Fragens, Korrigierens und Inszenierens —, um Lernen hervorzubringen.

教学是为了促成学习而有意识地调动讲述、展示、提问、纠正与情境安排等多种方式。

adhyāpanaṃ śikṣotpādanāya ākhyāna-darśana-praśna-saṃśodhana-vinyāsānāṃ saṃkalpapūrvako viniyogaḥ

अध्यापनं शिक्षोत्पादनाय आख्यान-दर्शन-प्रश्न-संशोधन-विन्यासानां संकल्पपूर्वको विनियोगः।

to whom it may concern

  • अध्यापनम् / adhyāpanam = teaching
  • आख्यान / ākhyāna = telling, narration
  • दर्शन / darśana = showing
  • प्रश्न / praśna = asking, questioning
  • संशोधन / saṃśodhana = correcting
  • विन्यास / vinyāsa = arranging, staging
  • शिक्षोत्पादनाय / śikṣotpādanāya = for producing learning
  • संकल्पपूर्वक / saṃkalpapūrvaka = deliberate, intentional
  • विनियोग / viniyoga = application, use

On कथनं and (non-story)telling

Not all telling is narrative; much telling is melodic, harmonic, rhytmic, spatial, bodily, material, ritual, or indexical.
 
Nicht alles Erzählen ist narrativ; vieles ist melodisch, harmonisch, rhytmisch, räumlich, körperlich, materiell, rituell oder indexikalisch.
 
告示未必皆敘事;其多或見於旋律,或見於和聲,或見於節奏,或寓於空間,或著於形體,或託於器物,或行於儀式,或顯於徵兆。
 
न सर्वं कथनमाख्यानम्; बहु तु मेल-ताल-सामञ्जस्य-देश-शरीर-द्रव्य-क्रिया-सूचनात्मकम्।
 
na sarvaṃ kathanam ākhyānam; bahu tu mela-tāla-sāmañjasya-deśa-śarīra-dravya-kriyā-sūcanātmakam.

Is "flower sermon" Indexical or not ?

如來在靈山說法。諸天献華。世尊持華示眾。迦葉微笑。世尊告眾曰。吾有正法眼藏。涅槃妙心。付囑摩訶迦葉。流布將來。勿令斷絕。仍以金縷僧伽梨衣付迦葉。以俟慈氏。

earliest extant wording usually cited, from the Tiansheng guangdeng lu (天聖廣燈錄), compiled in 1036

The Tathāgata was teaching Dharma on Vulture Peak. The gods offered flowers. The World-Honored One took a flower and showed it to the assembly. Kāśyapa smiled faintly. The World-Honored One addressed the assembly, saying: “I have the treasury of ... let it circulate in the future; do not let it be cut off.” He then also gave the gold-threaded saṅghāṭī robe to Kāśyapa, to await ...

Forms of Telling

एकं कथनं बहुरूपम्।
ekaṃ kathanaṃ bahurūpam

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Verbal

storytelling, reporting, informing, describing, explaining, defining, classifying, listing, counting, reciting, instructing, commanding, warning, advising, arguing, questioning, testifying, confessing, announcing, naming, praising, lamenting, joking, gossiping, praying, invoking, chanting, teaching

Non-Verbal

associating, pointing, indicating, directing attention, demonstrating, modeling, imitation, posture, gesture, facial expression, gaze, silence, pause, rhythm, melody, harmony, dance, enactment, ritual gesture, bowing, saluting, kneeling, dress, costume, body marking, showing scars, tears, footprints, traces, objects displayed (trophies, status markers, offerings), memorials, spatial arrangement, maps, diagrams, images, symbols, icons, indexical signs, collective procession, coordinated movement, staging, spatial configurations ...

Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives

Barthes’ structural analysis of narrative studies stories as systems of related functions, actions, and codes, asking how narrative is organized and how that organization produces meaning.

The hero with the thousand faces

  1. Departure / Separation
    1. Call to Adventure
    2. Refusal of the Call
    3. Supernatural Aid
    4. Crossing the First Threshold
    5. Belly of the Whale
  2. Initiation
    1. Road of Trials
    2. Meeting with the Goddess
    3. Woman as Temptress
    4. Atonement with the Father
    5. Apotheosis
    6. The Ultimate Boon
  3. Return
    1. Refusal of the Return
    2. The Magic Flight
    3. Rescue from Without
    4. Crossing of the Return Threshold
    5. Master of Two Worlds
    6. Freedom to Live

The science of story-telling

Some of the things the story theorists were saying about narrative were strikingly similar to what the psychologists and neuroscientists I'd been interviewing had been telling me about brain and mind.

The Telling

Ursula leGuin: The Telling

Brief presence and long absence, that was all she and they ever had. 

And made the best of it.

Assignment for those who don't go to Sauen

Combine the William Storr's  method of "The Flawed Self" (pages 91 - 101) with Ursula leGuin's The Telling to analyze / re-narrate the story of:

Sutty and the Mountain
Monitor and the Wind

for those who didn't read the full book.