Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

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ID23397654
AuthorsDavid Herman (0000-0002-0004-4682)
Year2013
Pages448
Publication date2013-07-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStorytelling and the Sciences of Mind (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9547.001.0001
OpenAlexW634983639
Open LibraryOL29684960M
ISBN9780262315692
LanguageEN
Citations received77

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.

Art · Literature · Narrative · Storytelling · Visual arts · Digital Storytelling and Education · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Art de conter · Cognitive Science · Discours narratif · Discourse analysis · Discourse analysis, narrative · Language Arts & Disciplines · Linguistics · Narration · Narration (rhetoric) · Narrative Discourse analysis · Psycholinguistics · Psychological aspects · Sciences cognitives

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