Basic Elements of Narrative
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2009.
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Series: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Elements
- 1 Getting Started A Thumbnail Sketch of the Approach
- Toward a Working Definition of Narrative
- Profiles of Narrative
- Narrative: Basic Elements
- 2 Framing the Approach Some Background and Context
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Narrative Theory
- Major Trends in Recent Scholarship on Narrative
- 3 Back to the Elements Narrative Occasions
- Situating Stories
- Sociolinguistic Approaches
- Positioning Theory
- The Narrative Communication Model
- Conclusion
- 4 Temporality, Particularity, and Narrative An Excursion into the Theory of Text Types
- From Contexts of Narration to Narrative as a Type of Text
- Text Types and Categorization Processes
- Narrative as a Text-Type Category: Descriptions versus Stories versus Explanations
- Coda: Text Types, Communicative Competence, and the Role of Stories in Science
- 5 The Third Element
- or, How to Build a Storyworld
- Narratives as Blueprints for Worldmaking
- Narrative Ways of Worldmaking
- Narrative Worlds: A Survey of Approaches
- Configuring Narrative Worlds: The WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN Dimensions of Storyworlds
- Worlds Disrupted: Narrativity and Noncanonical Events
- 6 The Nexus of Narrative and Mind
- The Consciousness Factor
- Consciousness across Narrative Genres
- Experiencing Minds: What It's Like, Qualia, Raw Feels
- Storied Minds: Narrative Foundations of Consciousness?
- Appendix
- Literary Narrative: Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
- Narrative Told during Face-to-Face Communication: UFO or the Devil (2002)
- Excerpted Panels from Ghost World (1997), a Graphic Novel by Daniel Clowes
- Screenshots from Terry Zwigoff 's Film Adaptation of Ghost World (2001)
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index