Stories, Meaning, And Experience: Narrativity And Enaction (routledge Studies In Rhetoric And Stylistics)
by Yanna B. Popova /
2015 / English / PDF, EPUB
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This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of
narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and
comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. This new
paradigm offers an understanding of human cognition based in the
perception and sensory motor dynamics of an agent and a world. It
argues that narrative is but one form of conceptual organization
for human minds, the other being categorical organization.
Complex literary narratives, as well as visual art, are instances
in which both types of organization coexist, and in later
chapters the model is elaborated in relation to some of those
examples, specifically stories by Henry James and Gabriel García
Márquez. The understanding of narrative offered by Popova thus
cuts across many of the core issues in fields such as
narratology, cognitive psychology, and traditional story
grammars.
This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of
narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and
comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. This new
paradigm offers an understanding of human cognition based in the
perception and sensory motor dynamics of an agent and a world. It
argues that narrative is but one form of conceptual organization
for human minds, the other being categorical organization.
Complex literary narratives, as well as visual art, are instances
in which both types of organization coexist, and in later
chapters the model is elaborated in relation to some of those
examples, specifically stories by Henry James and Gabriel García
Márquez. The understanding of narrative offered by Popova thus
cuts across many of the core issues in fields such as
narratology, cognitive psychology, and traditional story
grammars.
