Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy and Literature

by Nash,Cristopher

• ISBN13: 9780415103442
• ISBN10: 0415103444
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-11-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Narrative in Cultureexamines how narrative works in different arenas. It presents essays by specialists in philosophy, literary theory, politics, psychoanalysis, the history of science, law and economics. Narrative and discourse dominate the way we relate to each other and to the world. No longer confined to literature and linguistics, the study of narrative has spread to all disciplines with the discovery that "storytelling" is more pervasive and more important in contemporary culture than previously suspected. Contributors:Michael Bell, J. M. Bernstein, Christine Brooke-Rose, Rom Harre, Bernard S. Jackson, Peter Lamarque, Donald N. McCloskey, Greg Myers, Cristopher Nash.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Narrative and 'Fact'	p. 1
Social Science	p. 3
Storytelling in Economics	p. 5
Narrative Theories and Legal Discourse	p. 23
Self-Knowledge as Praxis: Narrative and Narration in Psychoanalysis	p. 51
Physical Science	p. 79
Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse	p. 81
Making a Discovery: Narratives of Split Genes	p. 102
Narrative and 'Fiction'	p. 127
Philosophy and Literature	p. 129
Narrative and Invention: the Limits of Fictionality	p. 131
Ill Locutions	p. 154
How Primordial is Narrative?	p. 172
Slaughtering the Subject: Literature's Assault on Narrative	p. 199
Index	p. 219
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