报告题目：Dreaming and Narrative Form
报告专家：Richard Walsh教授
报告时间：2026年11月5日（周四）14:30
报告地点：文德楼N402
主 持 人：杜玉生 教授
报告人简介：
Richard Walsh is a Professor of Narrative Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK, and the Founding Director of York’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies. He is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, the author of Novel Arguments (1995) and The Rhetoric of Fictionality (2007), and co-editor of Narratology and Ideology (2018), Narrating Complexity (2018) and Fictionality and Literature (2022). His work ranges over literary, cultural and cognitive topics in narrative theory, including reflexiveness and ideology in fiction; fictionality within and beyond fiction; narrative across media; emergent and interactive narrative; narrative and selfhood; narrative creativity and authority; dreaming; and narrative cognition.
理查德·沃尔什是英国约克大学英语与相关文学系叙事学教授，也是约克大学跨学科叙事研究中心的创始主任。他曾担任国际叙事研究学会会长，著有《小说论辩》（1995）和《虚构性的修辞》（2007），并参与合编《叙事学与意识形态》（2018）、《叙事复杂性》（2018）和《虚构性与文学》（2022）。他的研究涵盖叙事理论中的文学、文化和认知议题，包括小说中的反身性与意识形态、虚构之内与之外的虚构性、跨媒介叙事、涌现性与互动性叙事、叙事与自我、叙事创造力与权威、梦境以及叙事认知。
报告内容简介：
This talk presents a view of the process of dreaming as a narrative activity, within a view of narrative cognition as categorically distinct from the immediacy of phenomenal encounter. Dreaming does not conform to the enactive reciprocity between agent and environment assumed by predictive processing but instead involves a reciprocity between cognitive processing and cognition’s representational effects. Four key hypotheses underlying this position are explored, and their plausibility tested against evidence from the Threshold Worlds project and its dream survey (which I will introduce at the beginning of the talk). The first is that dreaming is a manifestation of narrative cognition, a sensemaking activity in a specifically narrative form. The second is that in dreams the perceptual faculties function as media of narrative representation. The third is that dream cognition is engaged with an implicit semiotic environment. And the fourth is that dreaming participates in the inherent reflexiveness of narrative, and in particular the mode of narrative meaning we call fiction.
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