The Narrative Criticism Review#week11

Article:
Clark Callahan. Cosmological Worldview and Theory-building: A Rhetorical Analysis of Medieval Astronomical Narrative. Oct2005 Vol.29 No.2, p98-105.
Research Question:
According to this study, author wants to find an approach to know what way can order and present a worldview through a description of a situation in the medieval cosmological scientific narrative (Clark99).
Research Aim:
The author’s aims are: 1.to describe and to analyze the substance of the medieval cosmological narrative; 2. and to offer an evaluation of the narrative to extending and theorizing the narrative form. (Clark99).
Methodology:
The paper, Cosmological Worldview and Theory-building: A Rhetorical Analysis of Medieval Astronomical Narrative, tries to use narrative theory to understanding the medieval astronomical narrative. In addition, the research also compares the Arabic models as Contribution with Copernican Heliocentric thought and European Astronomy perspective. (Clark99-101)

Finding:
The findings of this paper are: 1. the science become its own message without the intercultural discussion; 2, the narrative here is the culmination layers that analysis does not encompass the entire narrative; 3.the impact of Copernican heliocentrism altered the way humans viewed themselves and their place in the world (Clark101-103).
Limitation:
History is primarily recognized in communication research as background for understanding individuals. Nevertheless, those current studies still only focus on communication efficiency. The historical narrative is a particular approach to testify and to understand the relationship of time and contextualizations (Clark103-104).
Future direction:
According to this artifact, the Cosmological Narrative is not only an approach to focus on communication action, but a theoretical model to know a life world of an individual. Therefore, developing the Cosmological Narrative forward to a multiple communication research is the future direction (Clark104).