LEADER 04075nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910454853803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02901-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029019 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786727 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096985 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11121609 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096985 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10083687 035 $a(PQKB)11660799 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300334 035 $a(DE-B1597)571778 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300334 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315838 035 $a(OCoLC)923110615 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161973 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786727 100 $a19941123d1986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActual minds, possible worlds$b[electronic resource] /$fJerome Bruner 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1986 215 $axi, 201 p 225 0 $aThe Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00365-9 311 $a0-674-00366-7 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tPart One. Two Natural Kinds -- $t1. Approaching the Literary -- $t2. Two Modes of Thought -- $t3. Possible Castles -- $tPart Two. Language and Reality -- $t4. The Transactional Self -- $t5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky -- $t6. Psychological Reality -- $t7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds -- $t8. Thought and Emotion -- $tPart Three. Acting in Constructed Worlds -- $t9. The Language of Education -- $t10. Developmental Theory as Culture -- $tAfterword -- $tAppendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce -- $tNotes -- $tCredits -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life?those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind?a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible historical accounts. Bruner calls it the ?narrative mode,? and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature. Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology, Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind?s other side in his justly admired book, On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind?s narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works. 606 $aPsychology and literature 606 $aPsycholinguistics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychology and literature. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics. 676 $a153.3 700 $aBruner$b Jerome S$g(Jerome Seymour)$045385 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454853803321 996 $aActual minds, possible worlds$931227 997 $aUNINA