1st Edition
Stories, Meaning, and Experience Narrativity and Enaction
By Yanna B. Popova
Copyright 2015
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through stories. ‘Why do we have stories?’, ‘How do stories create meaning for us?’, and ‘How is storytelling distinct from other forms of meaning-making?’ are some of the questions that this book seeks to answer. Although these and other related problems have preoccupied linguists, philosophers, sociologists,... Read more
Introduction: Why We Have Stories Part 1 1. Perceptual Causality and Narrative Causality 2. Narrativity and Enaction: The Social Nature of Literary Narrative Understanding 3. Narrative and Metaphor: On Two Alternative Organizations of Human Experience Part 2 4. Narrativity and Enaction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 5 . Narrative and Allegory in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 6. Narrative and Metaphor in the Tales of Henry James Afterword
Biography
Yanna Popova has taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford, and was a founding member of the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, USA.
