What is included with this book?
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
The Elements | p. xvi |
Getting Started: A Thumbnail Sketch of the Approach | p. 1 |
Toward a Working Definition of Narrative | p. 1 |
Profiles of Narrative | p. 7 |
Narrative: Basic Elements | p. 9 |
Framing the Approach: Some Background and Context | p. 23 |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Narrative Theory | p. 23 |
Major Trends in Recent Scholarship on Narrative | p. 26 |
Back to the Elements: Narrative Occasions | p. 37 |
Situating Stories | p. 37 |
Sociolinguistic Approaches | p. 40 |
Positioning Theory | p. 55 |
The Narrative Communication Model | p. 63 |
Conclusion | p. 74 |
Temporality, Particularity, and Narrative: An Excursion into the Theory of Text Types | p. 75 |
From Contexts of Narration to Narrative as a Type of Text | p. 75 |
Text Types and Categorization Processes | p. 79 |
Narrative as a Text-Type Category: Descriptions versus Stories versus Explanations | p. 89 |
Coda: Text Types, Communicative Competence, and the Role of Stories in Science | p. 100 |
The Third Element; or, How to Build a Storyworld | p. 105 |
Narratives as Blueprints for Worldmaking | p. 105 |
Narrative Ways of Worldmaking | p. 108 |
Narrative Worlds: A Survey of Approaches | p. 118 |
Configuring Narrative Worlds: The WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN Dimensions of Storyworlds | p. 128 |
Worlds Disrupted: Narrativity and Noncanonical Events | p. 133 |
The Nexus of Narrative and Mind | p. 137 |
The Consciousness Factor | p. 137 |
Consciousness across Narrative Genres | p. 139 |
Experiencing Minds: What It's Like, Qualia, Raw Feels | p. 143 |
Storied Minds: Narrative Foundations of Consciousness? | p. 153 |
Appendix | p. 161 |
Literary Narrative: Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) | p. 161 |
Narrative Told during Face-to-Face Communication: UFO or the Devil (2002) | p. 166 |
Excerpted Panels from Ghost World (1997), a Graphic Novel by Daniel Clowes | p. 173 |
Screenshots from Terry Zwigoff's Film Version of Ghost World (2001) | p. 178 |
Glossary | p. 180 |
Notes | p. 195 |
References | p. 215 |
Index | p. 235 |
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