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Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It rehabilitates the study of what books are about by providing a cognitive narrative thematic model (CNT). This innovative study is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of narrative theory.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene
1.1. Cognitive narrative thematics (CNT) or what this book is about
1.2. Why nobody does thematics
1.3. Two complementary traditions of cognitive thematics
1.4. Two thematics? Cherries vs. cakes
1.5. Countering the reductionist potential of thematics
1.6. Folk psychology and CNT
1.7. Consequences for thematics
Chapter 2. Articulating CNT
2.1. Justifying the premise of CNT: the nature-society binary
2.2. CNT and evolutionary psychology: evolved human motivations
2.3. CNT and modality
2.4. Summarising and justifying CNT
2.5. Two additional models
Part II
Chapter 3. CNT And Rhetorical Poetics
3.1. A new role for CNT vis- à- vis
rhetorical poetics
3.2. CNT, rhetorical poetics and "My Last Duchess"
3.3. Conclusion
Chapter 4. CNT and children's stories
4.1. CNT and children's stories I:
The Gruffalo4.2. CNT and children's stories II:
Where the Wild Things Are4.3. Conclusion
Chapter 5. CNT In Comics
5.1. CNT and comics: Hellboy's "Baba Yaga"
5.2. CNT, comics and covert progression: Frank Miller's 300
5.3. Conclusion
Chapter 6. CNT In Academia
6.1. CNT in four histories of the novel
6.2. CNT in digital humanities reports
6.3. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Conclusion
About the author
Daniel Candel is Professor of English literature at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He has published widely in journals such as
Poetics Today,
Semiotica,
English Text Construction and
Style.
