Negative Capability is not a concept I'm familiar with but what I intuit seems to suggest that you are being a bit too non-committal re Gans. Doesn't someone who writes at length about paradoxical thinking evidence some investment in the Capability? Or are these more unrelated concepts than I think?
As for the suggestion that we work at further populating any scene, to build up or multiply narratives and defer closure, what do we do with the idea that all narratives entail closure?
Gans has never seemed to me so interested in scenes themselves, in the way they play themselves out. And even if narratives entail closure, any closure can be a new opening--and narratives might resist closure in themselves. Maybe Kafka's unfinished novels are really "finished," just unclosed. There's always something sacrificial about closure.
Negative Capability is not a concept I'm familiar with but what I intuit seems to suggest that you are being a bit too non-committal re Gans. Doesn't someone who writes at length about paradoxical thinking evidence some investment in the Capability? Or are these more unrelated concepts than I think?
As for the suggestion that we work at further populating any scene, to build up or multiply narratives and defer closure, what do we do with the idea that all narratives entail closure?
Gans has never seemed to me so interested in scenes themselves, in the way they play themselves out. And even if narratives entail closure, any closure can be a new opening--and narratives might resist closure in themselves. Maybe Kafka's unfinished novels are really "finished," just unclosed. There's always something sacrificial about closure.
That's right.