The choice of a particular term therefore reflects, for ohing, how well the rearcher uands the cept or cepts behind it, and, by extension, the rearch question he or she is dealing with. sider the short passage beloreliminary note about my title: I u the term genealogy in the n pioneered by Friedriietzsche （［1887］ 1968） and reinvigorated by Michel Foucault （［1971］ 1984）; in this usage, genealogy is a mode of iigation that eks to uncover fotten interes; reestablish obscured or unaowledged lines of dest; expo relationships between institutions, belief-systems, discours, or modes of analysis that might otherwi be taken to be wholly distind ued.
Genealogy in this way eks to denaturalize "the ti ［social, institutional, discursive, or other］ structures we mistakenly sider given, solid, aending without ge into the future as well as into the past" （Nehamas 1986: 110）. Hence, in referring to the chapter as a genealogy, I mean to clarify its aims: to situate ret theories of narrative in a plex lineage, a work of historical and ceptual affiliations, and thereby underscore how tho theories stitute less a singular tinuous tradition of rearch than a cluster of developments marked by family remblances. （pp.2021） （Herman, David. （2006）. "Histories of Narrative Theory （I）: A Genealogy of Early Developments." In James Phelan & Peter J. Rabinowitz （Eds.）. A panion to Narrative Theory （pp.1935）. Blackwell Publishing.）
The choice of a particular term therefore reflects, for ohing, how well the rearcher uands the cept or cepts behind it, and, by extension, the rearch question he or she is dealing with. sider the short passage beloreliminary note about my title: I u the term genealogy in the n pioneered by Friedriietzsche （［1887］ 1968） and reinvigorated by Michel Foucault （［1971］ 1984）; in this usage, genealogy is a mode of iigation that eks to uncover fotten interes; reestablish obscured or unaowledged lines of dest; expo relationships between institutions, belief-systems, discours, or modes of analysis that might otherwi be taken to be wholly distind ued.
Genealogy in this way eks to denaturalize "the ti ［social, institutional, discursive, or other］ structures we mistakenly sider given, solid, aending without ge into the future as well as into the past" （Nehamas 1986: 110）. Hence, in referring to the chapter as a genealogy, I mean to clarify its aims: to situate ret theories of narrative in a plex lineage, a work of historical and ceptual affiliations, and thereby underscore how tho theories stitute less a singular tinuous tradition of rearch than a cluster of developments marked by family remblances. （pp.2021） （Herman, David. （2006）. "Histories of Narrative Theory （I）: A Genealogy of Early Developments." In James Phelan & Peter J. Rabinowitz （Eds.）. A panion to Narrative Theory （pp.1935）. Blackwell Publishing.）