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/

Summary

Production Date: 11/14/2015
Catalog Number: 10586
Archive Number: 10586
Series: Vermont Humanities Fall Conference
Length: *1:30:38
Town: Vermont
Geography: Vermont
Event Type: General
Content Type: Other

Airtimes

1 Tuesday November 24, 2015 at 10:00 PM
2 Wednesday November 25, 2015 at 3:00 AM
3 Wednesday November 25, 2015 at 9:00 AM
4 Thursday December 3, 2015 at 1:00 PM
5 Sunday December 6, 2015 at 6:00 PM
6 Tuesday December 29, 2015 at 5:25 PM
7 Thursday December 31, 2015 at 4:45 PM

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