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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818174003321

Autore

Hogan Patrick Colm

Titolo

Affective narratology : the emotional structure of stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8032-3773-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of narrative

Disciplina

808/.036

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Emotions in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

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

Introduction: A passion for plot -- Before stories: emotional time and Anna Karenina -- Stories and works: from ancient Egypt to postmodernism -- Universal narrative prototypes: sacrifice, heroism, and romantic love -- Cross-cultural minor genres: attachment, lust, revenge, and criminal justice -- Afterword: Stories and the training of sensibility.

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV>Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes, plots, and genres are a function of emotional processes, he demonstrates that emotion systems are absolutely crucial for understanding stor