Beyond Narrative Coherence (Studies in Narrative)

✍ Scribed by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo, Maria Tamboukou

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• 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

Beyond Narrative Coherence......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Beyond narrative coherence......Page 8
The historical vicissitudes of narrative coherence......Page 9
Historical narratives......Page 11
The Coherent Self......Page 13
Coherence, linearity, and completeness......Page 15
Does it matter?......Page 17
References......Page 20
Narrative identity and coherence: The Aristotelian version......Page 24
Narrative identity and coherence: A discursive version......Page 28
Coherence in context......Page 30
A community of brains......Page 35
Note......Page 36
References......Page 37
Identity, Self, Narrative......Page 40
Illness, disease, and narrative......Page 41
The teller as character......Page 44
Performing autobiographical stories......Page 47
Alzheimer's disease, identity, and narrative......Page 49
Telling the right story......Page 51
Conclusions......Page 53
References......Page 54
Introduction......Page 56
Reading the mind and creating the storyworld......Page 59
The Tikoteekki case......Page 61
Reading the mind of an individual......Page 62
Reading the mind of the situation......Page 67
How was the data read?......Page 69
Concluding remarks......Page 70
References......Page 71
Appendix......Page 73
Broken narratives, visual forces......Page 74
Letters and paintings as events in time reconsidered......Page 78
Who writes or paints?......Page 82
Tracing events in letters and paintings......Page 85
Broken narratives, visual forces......Page 90
References......Page 91
Introduction......Page 94
Fits and Starts......Page 95
Narrative Identity......Page 96
Artists Stories of Self and Others......Page 98
Towards Completeness......Page 100
Towards Incompleteness......Page 102
Resisting Completeness......Page 105
Towards a Conclusion......Page 107
References......Page 108
Introduction......Page 110
The author and her text......Page 113
Specific features of Anna's writing......Page 114
Discussion......Page 122
References......Page 125
Introduction......Page 128
The context: Coping with terror attacks in Israel......Page 130
The context: Bus drivers in Israel......Page 131
The structure and meanings of the pronoun system in Modern Hebrew......Page 132
Central qualitative analytical questions......Page 135
Depersonalization and universalization......Page 136
Two degrees of separation......Page 138
Ownership of the active or heroic role......Page 140
A return to the text to explore dual messages in both form and content......Page 143
Discussion......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 151
References......Page 152
Beyond narrative......Page 154
Healing: Personal pain and social suffering......Page 156
Life and narrative......Page 158
Narratives and traumatic testimony......Page 162
Language and the 'confusion of tongues'......Page 165
Language and 'the threshold of silence'......Page 167
The search for heroic meanings......Page 170
Concluding comments......Page 171
References......Page 172
The Manifest and the Latent......Page 174
A New Paradigm?......Page 177
Beyond 'Weird'......Page 178
Multiplicities and Coherences......Page 183
To Speak the Unspeakable......Page 187
References......Page 193
List of contributors......Page 194
Index......Page 198
The series Studies in Narrative......Page 204