Popova Stories, Meaning, and Experience

Narrativity and Enaction
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-134-73845-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. This new paradigm offers an understanding of human cognition based in the perception and sensory motor dynamics of an agent and a world. It argues that narrative is but one form of conceptual organization for human minds, the other being categorical organization. Complex literary narratives, as well as visual art, are instances in which both types of organization coexist, and in later chapters the model is elaborated in relation to some of those examples, specifically stories by Henry James and Gabriel García Márquez. The understanding of narrative offered by Popova thus cuts across many of the core issues in fields such as narratology, cognitive psychology, and traditional story grammars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popova, Yanna B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 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 4. Narrativity and Enaction in Chronical 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

Über Autor(innen)

Yanna B. Popova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, USA.