Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester

Hanks, Laura

Abstract

© 2015 The California Academy of Sciences. This article seeks to engage with the notion of "discourse," and to test and apply ideas from literary and film theory in the analysis of architectural-and particularly museum-space. It examines the complex set of relations between "narrative," "story" and "discourse" as they manifest in a particular contemporary museum: The Novium in Chichester, UK. This museum was opened in 2012 and designed to contain the remains of Chichester's Roman bathhouse. This article considers the varying degrees of synonymity between the concepts of "story" and "discourse," or "medium" and "message," as encountered during visitors' journeys through the space of the museum.

Citation

Hanks, L. (2015). Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester. Curator: The Museum Journal, 58(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12096

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 26, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jan 9, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 16, 2019
• Journal: Curator
• Print ISSN: 0011-3069
• Electronic ISSN: 2151-6952
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-39
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12096
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1100395
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cura.12096
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hanks, L. H. (2015), Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester. Curator, 58: 27-39. doi:10.1111/cura.12096, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12096. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
• Contract Date: Jan 16, 2019