Making Stories - Law, Literature, Life

Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work?
In "Making Stories," the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive human habit and suggests new and deeper ways to think about how we use stories to make sense of lives and the great moral and psychological problems that animate them. Looking at legal cases and autobiography as well as literature, Bruner warns us not to be seduced by overly tidy stories and shows how doubt and double meaning can lie beneath the most seemingly simple case.

Sommario

Preface 1. The Uses of the Story 2. The Legal and the Literary 3. The Narrative Creation of Self 4. So Why Narrative? Notes Index

Info autore

Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.

Riassunto

Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive human habit and suggests new and deeper ways to think about how we use stories to make sense of lives and the great moral and psychological problems that animate them.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jerome Bruner, Jerome S. Bruner, Bruner Jerome
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780674010994
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01099-4
• Pagine: 144
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 211 mm x 11 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per corsi di lingua; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Rhetoric, Literary studies: general, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)