Basic Elements of Narrative

Basic Elements of Narrative

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herman, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2009.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Electronic books.
Online Access: 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

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