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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind by David Herman
An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself.With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people make sense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narratives from different periods and across multiple media and genres, Herman shows how traditions of narrative research can help shape ways of formulating and addressing questions about intelligent activity, and vice versa.Using case studies that range from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to sequences from The Incredible Hulk comics to narratives told in everyday interaction, Herman considers storytelling both as a target for interpretation and as a resource for making sense of experience itself. In doing so, he puts ideas from narrative scholarship into dialogue with such fields as psycholinguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive, social, and ecological psychology. After exploring ways in which interpreters of stories can use textual cues to build narrative worlds, or storyworlds, Herman investigates how this process of narrative worldmaking in turn supports efforts to understand--and engage with--the conduct of persons, among other aspects of lived experience.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780262019187 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262019183 |
| Title | Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind |
| Author | David Herman |
| Series | Storytelling And The Sciences Of Mind |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |