Affective narratology : the emotional structure of stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan
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| Autore: |
Hogan Patrick Colm
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| Titolo: |
Affective narratology : the emotional structure of stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808/.036 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discourse analysis, Narrative |
| Emotions in literature | |
| Narration (Rhetoric) | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Affective narratology |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-3773-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818174003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Frontiers of narrative.