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Affective narratology [[electronic resource] ] : the emotional structure of stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan



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Autore: Hogan Patrick Colm Visualizza persona
Titolo: Affective narratology [[electronic resource] ] : the emotional structure of stories / / Patrick Colm Hogan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina: 808/.036
Soggetto topico: Discourse analysis, Narrative
Emotions in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8032-3773-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457181403321
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Serie: Frontiers of narrative.