How Authors'' Minds Make Stories

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English and of the programs in Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature and Comparative Studies, and India Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Mind and its Stories and What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion, and the editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Klappentext This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Zusammenfassung This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation! drawing on recent research in neuroscience and literary analyses of works by Austen! Faulkner! Shakespeare! Racine! Brecht! Kafka and Calvino. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: from the universal to the particular; 1. Simulation: imagining fictional worlds in Faulkner and Austen; 2. Story development, literary evaluation, and the place of character; 3. A narrative idiolect: Shakespeare's heroic stories; 4. Principles and parameters of storytelling: the trajectory of Racine's romantic tragedies; 5. Argument and metaphor in Brecht and Kafka; 6. Emplotment: selection, organization, and construal in Hamlet; Afterword: if on a winter's night a narrator ....

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Colm Hogan, Patrick Colm (University of Connecticut) Hogan, Hogan Patrick Colm
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107475892
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47589-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Literary studies: general, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics