Beyond narrative coherence

✍ Scribed by Matti Hyvarinen & Lars-Christer Hyden & Marja Saarenheimo & Maria Tamboukou

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Series: Studies in narrative 11
• Edition: 11th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain incomplete, ambiguous, and contradictory. Obvious coherence cannot be the sole moral standard, the only perspective of reading, or the criterion for selecting and discarding research material. Beyond Narrative Coherence addresses the limits and aspects of narrative (dis)cohering by offering a rich theoretical and historical background to the debate. Limits of narrative coherence are discussed from the perspective of three fields of life that often threaten the coherence of narrative: illness, arts, and traumatic political experience. The authors of the book cover a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, arts studies, political science and philosophy

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Beyond narrative coherence: an introduction / Matti Hyvärinen --
Weird stories: brain, mind, and self / Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier --
Identity, Self, Narrative / Lars-Christer Hydén --
'Mind-reading', a method for understanding the broken narrative of an aphasic man / Tarja Aaltonen --
Broken narratives, visual forces: letters, paintings and the event / Maria Tamboukou --
Artists-in-progress: narrative identity of the self as another / Linda Sandino --
Breaking of self-narrative as a means of reorientation? / Vilma Hänninen and Anja Koski-Jännes --
"There is no fear in my lexicon" vs. "You are not normal if you won't be scared": a qualitative semiotic analysis of the 'broken' discourse of Israeli bus drivers who experienced terror attacks / Alison Stern Perez, Yishai Tobin and Shifra Sagy --
Beyond narrative: the shape of traumatic testimony / Molly Andrews --
Afterword: 'even amidst': rethinking narrative coherence / Mark Freeman --
List of contributors.

✦ Subjects

Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects. Cohesion (Linguistics) Narrative inquiry (Research method) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary. REFERENCE -- Word Lists.