I have suggested that modern narrat

I have suggested that modern narrative creates authority for itself by setting up a schema of differential embodiment through which heavily corporealized and relative “nobodies” are contrasted in order to create a position for the reader. Throughout this chapter we have seen why this contrast is necessary, and I have suggested some of the implications that arise for how narratives are constructed and analyzed. We could say that textual as well as cultural dynamics work to make the patterns that we have seen in these texts a necessity. At the same time, however, I have also suggested in various places throughout this study the positive effects that might result from some of the more complex dynamics that we have observed in narrative. In particular, I concluded chapter 4 by turning to Susan Langer’s aesthetic theory to suggest some of the positive aesthetic resonances of narrative circulation. By way of conclusion to this chapter, I would like to offer a similar reading of the importance of lightness and embodiment in narration.