Patrick Colm Hogan

How Authors' Minds Make Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107034402
• ISBN-10: 110703440X
• Artikelnr.: 37466083

Autorenporträt

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English and of the programs in Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature and Comparative Studies, and India Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Mind and its Stories and What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion, and the editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: from the universal to the particular
1. Simulation: imagining fictional worlds in Faulkner and Austen
2. Story development, literary evaluation, and the place of character
3. A narrative idiolect: Shakespeare's heroic stories
4. Principles and parameters of storytelling: the trajectory of Racine's romantic tragedies
5. Argument and metaphor in Brecht and Kafka
6. Emplotment: selection, organization, and construal in Hamlet
Afterword: if on a winter's night a narrator ....