Narratives and Narrators : A Philosophy of Stories.

By: Currie, GregoryMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191572739Subject(s): Discourse analysis, Narrative | Literature -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narratives and Narrators : A Philosophy of StoriesDDC classification: 401.41 LOC classification: P302.7.C87 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Contents -- 1. Representation -- 1.1. Artefactual Functions -- 1.2. Narrative and Story Content -- 1.3. Implicit and Explicit -- 1.4. Nature's Narratives? -- 1.5. Implied Authors -- 1.6. Looking Ahead -- 2. The Content of Narrative -- 2.1. Causes -- 2.2. Narrativity -- 2.3. Weighing Factors -- 2.4. Causal History -- 2.5. Coincidence and Humean Cause -- 2.6. Salient Possibilities -- Appendix: Cheap Talk and Costly Signals -- 3. Two Ways of Looking at a Narrative -- 3.1. Limits to the Content Approach to Narrative -- 3.2. Telling the Time in Marienbad -- 3.3. Possibility, Probability, Evidence -- 3.4. Representational Correspondence -- 4. Authors and Narrators -- 4.1. A Distinction without a Difference? -- 4.2. Implied and Second Authors -- 4.3. A Concession -- 4.4. A Note on Non-fiction -- 4.5. Should there be a Presumption in Favour of the Internal Narrator? -- 5. Expression and Imitation -- 5.1. The Framing Effect of Point of View -- 5.2. Conversation, Framing, and Joint Attention -- 5.3. Joint Attending and Guided Attending -- 5.4. Imitation -- 5.5. Imitating the Unreal -- 5.6. The Standard Model -- Appendix: Expression and the Reliability of Signalling -- 6. Resistance -- 6.1. Kinds of Resistance -- 6.2. Abilities -- 6.3. The Evolution of Resistance -- 6.4. Confusing Framework and Content -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Character-focused Narration -- 7.1. Genette's Distinction -- 7.2. The Knowledge Criterion -- 7.3. Expression -- 7.4. Focalization -- 7.5. Context Shifting -- 7.6. Empathy -- 7.7. Conclusion -- 8. Irony: A Pretended Point of View -- 8.1. Ironic Situations -- 8.2. Representational Irony -- 8.3. Points of View -- 8.4. Responding to Criticism -- 8.5. Pretence of Manner -- 8.6. Ironic Narration -- 9. Dis-interpretation -- 9.1. Irony in Pictures -- 9.2. Point of View Shots -- 9.3. Ironic Narration.
9.4. The Birds and the Psyche: Internal vs External Perspective -- 9.5. Irony and Horror: The Tradition -- 9.6. Science and the Supernatural -- 10. Narrative and Character -- 10.1. Preliminaries -- 10.2. Some Claims about Character -- 10.3. What Narrative does for Character -- 10.4. What Character does for Narrative -- 10.5. Character and the Critic -- 11. Character Scepticism -- 11.1. The Case against Character -- 11.2. Response -- 11.3. Simplifying the Problem -- 11.4. The Role of Character in Narrative -- 11.5. Reflections -- Appendix: Character and the Costs of Deception -- 12. In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.
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Contents -- 1. Representation -- 1.1. Artefactual Functions -- 1.2. Narrative and Story Content -- 1.3. Implicit and Explicit -- 1.4. Nature's Narratives? -- 1.5. Implied Authors -- 1.6. Looking Ahead -- 2. The Content of Narrative -- 2.1. Causes -- 2.2. Narrativity -- 2.3. Weighing Factors -- 2.4. Causal History -- 2.5. Coincidence and Humean Cause -- 2.6. Salient Possibilities -- Appendix: Cheap Talk and Costly Signals -- 3. Two Ways of Looking at a Narrative -- 3.1. Limits to the Content Approach to Narrative -- 3.2. Telling the Time in Marienbad -- 3.3. Possibility, Probability, Evidence -- 3.4. Representational Correspondence -- 4. Authors and Narrators -- 4.1. A Distinction without a Difference? -- 4.2. Implied and Second Authors -- 4.3. A Concession -- 4.4. A Note on Non-fiction -- 4.5. Should there be a Presumption in Favour of the Internal Narrator? -- 5. Expression and Imitation -- 5.1. The Framing Effect of Point of View -- 5.2. Conversation, Framing, and Joint Attention -- 5.3. Joint Attending and Guided Attending -- 5.4. Imitation -- 5.5. Imitating the Unreal -- 5.6. The Standard Model -- Appendix: Expression and the Reliability of Signalling -- 6. Resistance -- 6.1. Kinds of Resistance -- 6.2. Abilities -- 6.3. The Evolution of Resistance -- 6.4. Confusing Framework and Content -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Character-focused Narration -- 7.1. Genette's Distinction -- 7.2. The Knowledge Criterion -- 7.3. Expression -- 7.4. Focalization -- 7.5. Context Shifting -- 7.6. Empathy -- 7.7. Conclusion -- 8. Irony: A Pretended Point of View -- 8.1. Ironic Situations -- 8.2. Representational Irony -- 8.3. Points of View -- 8.4. Responding to Criticism -- 8.5. Pretence of Manner -- 8.6. Ironic Narration -- 9. Dis-interpretation -- 9.1. Irony in Pictures -- 9.2. Point of View Shots -- 9.3. Ironic Narration.

9.4. The Birds and the Psyche: Internal vs External Perspective -- 9.5. Irony and Horror: The Tradition -- 9.6. Science and the Supernatural -- 10. Narrative and Character -- 10.1. Preliminaries -- 10.2. Some Claims about Character -- 10.3. What Narrative does for Character -- 10.4. What Character does for Narrative -- 10.5. Character and the Critic -- 11. Character Scepticism -- 11.1. The Case against Character -- 11.2. Response -- 11.3. Simplifying the Problem -- 11.4. The Role of Character in Narrative -- 11.5. Reflections -- Appendix: Character and the Costs of Deception -- 12. In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.

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