Affective Narratology :: the Emotional Structure of Stories.

Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Pa...

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1. Verfasser: Hogan, Patrick Colm
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Frontiers of narrative.
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Zusammenfassung:Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes, plots, and genres are a function of emotional processes, he demonstrates that emotion systems are absolutely crucial for understanding stories.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (305 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780803237735
0803237731

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