Patrick Colm Hogan, Hogan Patrick Colm

The Mind and Its Stories

Narrative Universals and Human Emotion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stories people admire follow a limited number of patterns determined by ideas about emotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521111416
• ISBN-10: 0521111412
• Artikelnr.: 26056718

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: studying narrative, studying emotion
1. Literary universals
2. Emotion and suggestion: lexical processes in literary experience
3. Four hypotheses on emotion and narrative
4. Writing beyond the ending: a problem of narrative, empathy, and ethics
5. Extending the theory: emotion prototypes, narrative junctures, and lyric poetry
6. Testing, revision, and the program of research in narrative universals: Ainu epic and the plot of sacrifice
7. The structure of stories: some general principles of plot
Afterword: from the emotional nature of narrative to the narrative nature of emotion
Notes.