Affective narratology : the emotional structure of stories / Patrick Colm Hogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Patrick Colm.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Emotions in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803237735

0803237731

OCLC:

773566809