Gregory Currie

Narratives and Narrators

A Philosophy of Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780199282609
• ISBN-10: 0199282609
• Artikelnr.: 29425296

Autorenporträt

Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Analytical contents
1: Representation
2: The content of narrative
3: Two ways of looking at a narrative
4: Authors and narrators
5: Expression and imitation
6: Resistance
7: Character-focused narration
8: Irony: a pretended point of view
9: Dis-interpretation
10: Narrative and character
11: Character scepticism
In Conclusion
Bibliography
Indexes