A Theory Of Narrative

Author : Lee Roy Beach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527581632
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Narrative Thought written by Lee Roy Beach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned naturalist, Loren Eisely, observed that we humans have given up the “certainty of the animal that what it senses is exactly there in the shape the eye beholds.” The big question is, what did we get in return? This book provides a convincing answer to this question, arguing that, instead of recording reality, your brain uses your experience to create a story, a narrative, about how what happened to you in the past led to what is happening to you now. This narrative is your private reality. The book continues by showing how replacing recorded reality with private narrative enabled humans to anticipate the fundamentally unknowable immediate and remote future and expose potential threats. It then shows how private narrative enabled complex thought and communication with others. Drawing upon a wide range of research, the book provides a stimulating new way of viewing human experience, thinking, communicating, and action.

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231144292
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Narrative written by Rick Altman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. This text presents a wide-ranging and wholly original approach to understanding the nature of narrative.

Author : David Herman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814211861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Theory written by David Herman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we were to compile a list of frequently asked questions about narrative theory, we would put the following two at or near the top: 'what is narrative theory?' and 'how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?' This book addresses both questions and, more significantly, also demonstrates the extent to which the questions themselves are intertwined.

Author : Simon Grennan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137518448
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Narrative Drawing written by Simon Grennan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with theorizations of perception and the articulation of form. The book identifies and examines key issues in the field, including: the relationships between vision, visualization and imagination; the theoretical remediation of linguistic and narratological concepts; the systematization of discourse; the production of the subject; idea and institution; and the significance of resources of the body in depiction, representation and narrative. It then tests this new conception in practice: two original visual demonstrations clarify the particular dialectic relationships between subjects and media, in an examination of drawing style and genre, social consensus and self-conscious constraint. The book’s originality derives from its clear articulation of a wide range of sources in proposing a conception of narrative drawing, and the extrapolation of this new conception in two new visual demonstrations.

Author : James A. Wise
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893129
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Theory of Mind written by James A. Wise and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes, and that, although narrative thinking is a product of evolution, it enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and actively shape our own futures. In remarkably engaging language, the authors describe how the currency of neural activity in the brain is transformed into the qualitatively different currency of conscious experience—the everyday, purposeful, story-like experience with which we all are familiar. The book then examines the nature of thought and how it leads to purposeful action, discussing, among other concerns, how memories about the past, perceptions about the present, and expectations about the future are structured as plausible, coherent narratives by causation, purpose, and time, and how errors are introduced into one’s narratives, both naturally and by other people (often intentionally), and how those errors bias one’s expectations about the future and the actions taken (or not taken) as a consequence. Each of these discussions is followed by a commentary that ties them to interesting facts and questions from throughout the physical and social sciences. The book is concluded with the argument that narrative thought is what is meant when one uses the word “mind.”

Author : Kent Puckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033667
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Theory written by Kent Puckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Theory offers an introduction to the field's critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative throughout history.

Author : Ivor Goodson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415603617
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Narrative Theory written by Ivor Goodson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title looks at the contemporary need to study life narratives, considers the emergence and salience of life narratives in contemporary culture, and discusses different forms of narrativity.

Author : Mieke Bal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802007599
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratology written by Mieke Bal and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's "Narratology" has become a classic introduction to the major elements comprising a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside of the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including intermedia translation), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology. Two new chapters, one on visualization and visual narrative with examples from art and film and the other an examination of anthropological views of narrative, lead Bal to conclude with a re-evaluation of narratology in light of its applications outside the realm of the literary.

Author : Wallace Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493553
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Theories of Narrative written by Wallace Martin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. K. Stanzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521247191
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Narrative written by F. K. Stanzel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide a clear and systematic account of the complexities of fictional narration which result from the shifting relationship in all storytelling between the story itself and the way it is told.