I am also planning to talk about a selection of Russian poems in the light of this same method of reading that I am developing: by Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, and/or Alexander Blok.

Only the latter, however, are also nonnarrative in the psychophilosophical sense. The former tend to reflect narrative mental states, implying that life itself is a story and relying on master narratives—without constructing a literary narrative."

Both groups—'just relating feelings' (正述心緒) and 'relying on things, relating feelings' (寄物陳思)—consist of brief, passionate love poems and thus share the nonnarrative lyric form.

I develop this method based on two poetic categories in Man’yōshū, the earliest extant anthology of vernacular Japanese verse, compiled in the 8th century.

In this talk, I will argue that human beings are equally capable of narrative and nonnarrative mental states and propose a method of reading literature for psychophilosophical narrativity and nonnarrativity as complementing modes, which are not dependent on, or constitutive of, genre.

Thank you for your interest! This is the abstract:

"There is a growing awareness that the 'narrative turn' of the 20th century may have taken us too far. In the current Anglophone discourse, everyone and everything seems to have a 'story.'

Looking forward to seeing you! It's been a while

Omega Doom (1996) featuring Rutger Hauer sounded just as bad from the descriptions but is surprisingly good. Some interesting camerawork; a groovy score. The two rival gangs both consist of robots surviving a nuclear winter. One of the gangs looks like this.

One of the gang leaders is advised by a lizard. David Carradine plays the protagonist. This strapping man (appropriately) is this film's Nakadai Tatsuya. Every woman throughout the entire film is also topless.