How authors' minds make stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Hogan Patrick Colm
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 808.02019
• Soggetto topico: Authorship - Psychological aspects; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Psychological aspects; Creative ability - Psychological aspects; Cognitive science
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; How Authors' Minds Make Stories; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Simulation; From Deictic Shift to Simulation; The Function-Approximating Mechanisms of Simulation; Levels, Means, Processes, and Topics of Simulation; A Theoretical Note on Rules and Networks; The Resurrection of Quentin Compson; Simulating Minds: Elements of Emma Woodhouse's Neural Network; Conclusion; 2 Story Development, Literary Evaluation, and the Place of Character; Universal Genres; Development Principles; Evaluation Principles; Conclusion; 3 A Narrative Idiolect ; Shakespearean PatternsShakespeare's Narrative Idiolect; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Richard II; Hamlet; The Tempest; Conclusion; 4 Principles and Parameters of Storytelling; A Note on the Analysis of Racine's Work; La Thébaïd ou Les Frères Ennemis (The Thebiad or The Enemy Brothers); Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great); Andromaque; Britannicus; Bérénice; Bajazet; Mithridate; Iphigénie; Phèdre; Conclusion; 5 Argument and Metaphor in Brecht and Kafka; Arguments and Metaphors; Theater for Instruction: Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken); The Complexity of Models ; Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)Conclusion; 6 Emplotment; The Emplotment of Hamlet: Some General Principles; The Emplotment of Hamlet: Textual Particulars; Conclusion; Afterword; Simulating Narrative Minds; Narration Occluded or Explained: Faulkner's Light in August; Bunch Bumbles, Lena Leery; Celebrating Artifice: Calvino's Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler); Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; 1. Simulation; 2. Story Development, Literary Evaluation, and the Place of Character; 3. A Narrative Idiolect; 4. Principles and Parameters of Storytelling ; 5. Argument and Metaphor in Brecht and Kafka6. Emplotment; Afterword; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'. Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions and mechanisms of narrative imagination, with particular attention to the role of theory of mind, and relates this analysis to narrative universals. In the course of this theoretical discussion, Hogan explores works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht, Kafka and Calvino. He pays particular attention to the principles and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, examining the cognitive and emotional continuities that span an individual author's body of work.
• Titolo autorizzato: How authors' minds make stories
• ISBN: 1-107-23834-X; 1-107-30190-4; 1-107-30595-0; 1-107-30699-X; 1-107-30919-0; 1-107-31254-X; 1-299-00913-1; 1-107-31474-7; 1-139-54062-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824607103321
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