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The Craft of Fiction
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The Craft of Fiction as mentioned in this paper is a collection of short stories written by Lubbock and published by the Project Gutenberg Project.Copyright © 2006 Project Gutenberg. All rights reserved. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org.Abstract:
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Craft of Fiction Author: Percy Lubbock Release Date: August 1, 2006 [eBook #18961] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRAFT OF FICTION***read more
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The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience
Raymond A. Mar,Keith Oatley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that literary narratives have a more important purpose than entertainment, and they offer models or simulations of the social world via abstraction, simplification, and compression, which facilitates the communication and understanding of social information and makes it more compelling.
The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of
Raymond A. Mar,Keith Oatley +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that literary narratives have a more important purpose and offer models or simulations of the social world via abstraction, simplification, and compression, which facilitates the communication and understanding of social information and makes it more compelling, achieving a form of learning through experience.
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Basic elements of narrative
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of approaches to constructing a storyworld from context of Narration to Narrative as a type of text, with a focus on the role of stories in science.
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Literary Rhetoric of Science - Comedy and Pathos in Drinking Driver Research
TL;DR: The authors examine research papers on the issue of drinking and driving, treating the scientific document as a literary, artistic product. And they apply principles of literary criticism, utilized in the analysis of narrative, drama and poetry, to the presentation of research to show how statements of fact are given scientific legitimacy and how the literary formulation transfers such statements into rhetorical prescriptions for action.
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What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
TL;DR: In this paper, the place of literature in the study of emotion was discussed and a discussion of what emotions are in literature and literature shaping emotion was carried out, including the following: 1. Fictions and feelings: on the places of literature and feelings, 2. What emotions are 3. Romantic love: Sappho, Li Ch'ing-Chao, and Romeo and Juliet 4. Grief: Kobayashi Issa and Hamlet 5. Mirth: from Chinese jokes to A Comedy of Errors 6. Guilt, shame, jealousy: The Strong Breed, Mac