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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292793125
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative ActsDDC classification:
  • 700.1
LOC classification:
  • BF408
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. The Sciences and Humanities Matter as One -- Part One. General and Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter One. Arts in the Brain -- or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? -- Chapter Two. Narrative as Nourishment -- Chapter Three. Narrative Empathy -- Chapter Four. The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward a New Semiotics of Film -- Chapter Five. Voice and Perception: An Evolutionary Approach to the Basic Functions of Narrative -- Chapter Six. Dreaming and Narrative Theory -- Part Two. A Selection of New Approaches -- Chapter Seven. Cross-Cultural Mind-Reading -- or, Coming to Terms with the Ethnic Mother in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior -- Chapter Eight. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried's Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism -- Chapter Nine. Garden Paths and Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation in Literature and Film -- Chapter Ten. Consciousness, Ethics, and Narrative: Reading Literature in an Age of Torture -- Chapter Eleven. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. The Sciences and Humanities Matter as One -- Part One. General and Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter One. Arts in the Brain -- or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? -- Chapter Two. Narrative as Nourishment -- Chapter Three. Narrative Empathy -- Chapter Four. The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward a New Semiotics of Film -- Chapter Five. Voice and Perception: An Evolutionary Approach to the Basic Functions of Narrative -- Chapter Six. Dreaming and Narrative Theory -- Part Two. A Selection of New Approaches -- Chapter Seven. Cross-Cultural Mind-Reading -- or, Coming to Terms with the Ethnic Mother in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior -- Chapter Eight. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried's Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism -- Chapter Nine. Garden Paths and Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation in Literature and Film -- Chapter Ten. Consciousness, Ethics, and Narrative: Reading Literature in an Age of Torture -- Chapter Eleven. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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