Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences

✍ Scribed by David Herman

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research on human intelligence has postulated that studying the structure and use of stories can provide important insight into the roots of self and the nature of thinking. In that spirit, this volume focuses on narrative as a crossroads where cognitive and social psychology, linguistics, literary theory, and the recent hybrid called "cognitive narratology" intersect, suggesting new directions for the cognitive sciences. The ideas contained here demonstrate the importance of narrative as a cognitive style, a genre of discourse, and a resource for literary writing and other forms of communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
I. Approaches to Narrative and Cognition
2. Cognitive Psychological Foundations of Narrative Experiences
3. Narrative Construction, Cognitive Processing, and Health
4. Semantics and Narrative in Therapeutic Discourse
II. Narrative as Cognitive Endowment
5. Double-scope Stories
6. Unnarratable Knowledge: The Difficulty of Understanding Evolution by Natural Selection
7. Stories as a Tool for Thinking
III. New Directions for Cognitive Narratology
8. 'Awake! Open your eyes!' The Cognitive Logic of External and Internal Stories
9. Cognitive Maps and the Construction of Narrative Space
10. Natural Narratology and Cognitive Parameters
IV. Fictional Minds
11. Cognitive Science, the Thinking Mind, and Literary Narrative
12. Constructing Social Space: Sociocognitive Factors in the Interpretation of Character Relations
13. The Mind Beyond the Skin
Name Index
Subject Index
Back Cover