The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a...
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wid...
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to...
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of expert...
Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that help humans make sense of their world, narratives not only have a logic but also are a logic in their own right, providing an irreplaceable resource for structuring and comprehending experience. Story Logic brings together and pointedly examines key concepts of narrative in literary criticism,...
Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David ...
In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmodernist literary experimentation and contemporary language theory. Ultimately a search for new tools for narrative theory, his work clarifies complex connections between science and art, theory and culture, and philosophical analysis and narrative discourse. Following an extensive historical overview of theories about universal grammar, Herman examines Joyce's "Ulysses," Kafka's "The Trial," and Woolf's "Between the Acts" as case studies of...
In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmoderni...
Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories.
Includes an overview of recent developments in narrative scholarship
Provides an accessible introduction to key concepts in the field
Views narrative as a cognitive structure, type of text, and resource for interpersonal communication
Uses examples from literature, face to face...
Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, int...
Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories.
Includes an overview of recent developments in narrative scholarship
Provides an accessible introduction to key concepts in the field
Views narrative as a cognitive structure, type of text, and resource for interpersonal communication
Uses examples from literature, face to face...
Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, int...
With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people make sense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narratives from different periods and across...
With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intel...
