TY - BOOK AU - Herman,David TI - Basic Elements of Narrative T2 - New York Academy of Sciences Series SN - 9781444305937 AV - PN212 .H46 2009 U1 - 808 PY - 2009/// CY - Newark PB - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7104569 ER -