The travelling concepts of narrative [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Mari Hatavara ; Lars-Christer Hydén

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792147203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013
• ISBN: 90-272-7196-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: Studies in narrative (SiN), , 1568-2706 ; ; v. 18
• Altri autori (Persone): HyvärinenMatti; HatavaraMari; HydénLars-Christer
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects; Narrative inquiry (Research method); Cohesion (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Travelling Concepts of Narrative; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction, or another story of narrative; Interdisciplinary narrative studies; The concept of narrative; The structure of the book; Exploring the narrative turns; Travelling between fiction and non-fiction; Travelling from body to story; Note; References; Exploring the narrative turns; Travelling metaphors, transforming concepts; Travelling with Mieke Bal; Tasting the difference; LaCapra's astonishment; Confusions of a traveller; Narrative as a metaphor; Ryan's distinction; Life as postclassical narrative?Life On Chesil Beach; References; Why narrative is here to stay A return to origins; The hermeneutic imperative and the turn to narrative; i. The Freudian moment; ii. The textual moment; iii. The historiographical moment; iv. The poetic moment; Narrative, dementia, and the nature of the real; References; To the narrative turn and back The political impact of storytelling in feminism; 1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; References; Travelling with narrative: From text to body; References; Philosophical underpinnings of the narrative turn in theory and fiction; The epistemological dimensionThe ontological dimension; The ethical ; dimension; References; Travelling between fiction and non-fiction; Fact and fiction: Exploring the narrative mind; Just the facts; Narrative hermeneutics; Interpretive meaning-making and the autobiographical process; Interpretation and intersubjectivity; References; Broken or unnatural? On the distinction of fiction in non-conventional first person narration; Accessibility and mediation: Against against the exceptionality thesis; Defining and interpreting (elements of) non-conventional narration; Obstructed attributions; ConclusionNote; References; Making sense in autobiography; Autobiography and sense-making; Natural and literal readings; Paratexts, beginnings and ends; Mediated experiences; Theories of mind and narrative; Conclusion; References; "Unnatural" narratives? The case of second-person narration; Mapping out the area: Second-person narration; Playing with narrative situations: Ahmadou Kourouma's Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote; Sharing stories: Second-person narration in conversational settings; Second-person narration: "Unnatural" storytelling?; Appendix; References; Storytelling on the go: Breaking news as a travelling narrative genreWays of telling-sites-tellers in small stories research; Breaking news as ethnographic observables; Analysis; Breaking news as (small) stories; Event sequencing and world-making in breaking news: Ways of telling; Situatedness and recontextualization of breaking news: Sites; Audience engagement and co-construction: Tellers; Conclusions; References; Travelling from body to story; Towards an embodied theory of narrative and storytelling; Storytelling and dementia: The experimental and cognitive approach; Problems with the cognitive processing theory
• Sommario/riassunto: This chapter addresses how concepts of narrative and narration have been used in theories of cultural trauma. My point of departure is an article by Wulf Kansteiner and Harald Weilnböck, where they criticize the concept of cultural trauma or what they call the paradigm of "deconstructive trauma discourse." They argue that this paradigm not only misuses the concept of psychological trauma by adapting it to a cultural realm, but also refuses to recognize the significance of narratives in trauma therapy. I will challenge their criticism by taking a closer look at how the concept of cultural traum