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Narratology
About: Narratology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2833 publications have been published within this topic receiving 50998 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theory.
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TL;DR: Gallese et al. as discussed by the authors argue that stories often evoke intense feelings and sensations in their readers, which may be considered the outcome of a basic functional mechanism instantiated by our brain-body system.
Abstract: Author(s): Gallese, Vittorio; Wojciehowski, Hannah | Abstract: How do stories often evoke intense feelings and sensations in their readers? This essay explores that question with a new combination of insights from neuroscience and literary theory, while also assessing the difficulties as well as the potential gains of such interdisciplinary research. The authors lay the groundwork for a neurocritical embodied narratology that incorporates both the critiques of traditional humanism within literary studies and of classic cognitivism within neuroscience. Their methodological approach focuses on Feeling of Body (in contrast to Theory of Mind), which may be considered the outcome of a basic functional mechanism instantiated by our brain-body system. Feeling of Body is also a foundational aspect of liberated Embodied Simulation, a process enabling a more direct and less cognitively mediated access to the world of narrated others and mediating our capacity to share the meaning of their actions, basic motor intentions, feelings, and emotions, thus grounding our identification with and connectedness to narrated characters. Through case studies of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Dante Alighieri’s Vita nuova, the authors argue that literary texts rely on Feelings of Body communicated by the authors to their readers, and, in turn, experienced by readers simulating those experiences through the sensory-motor networks common to human beings.
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TL;DR: The idea of narrative as a mode of thought and as a root metaphor in psychology is introduced, and the notion of narrative identity is outlined in this article, where the application of narrative theory to psychology is illustrated by reference to three research projects.
Abstract: Narrative theory is of increasing interest to psychologists. This paper provides some theoretical background from a range of disciplines. The idea of narrative as a mode of thought and as a root metaphor in psychology is introduced, and the notion of narrative identity is outlined. The application of narrative theory to research in psychology is illustrated by reference to three research projects. One project sought autobiographical narratives from women on the theme of infertility and assessed them according to aspects of narrative theory, the second drew on the canonical romantic narrative to explain common findings in relation to adolescents' use of condoms, and the third identified both autobiographical and canonical narratives in interviews with teenage mothers. It is suggested that narrative theory is invaluable to psychologists who want both to retain the complexity of the individual lives they study and to investigate multiple interactions among individuals and cultures. Versions of the last secti...
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an auto/biographical account of educational experience for women, focusing on the story of self and the self-experience of women in the further education context.
Abstract: 1. Research methodology for a biography Michael Erben 2. Understanding life backwards and leading it forwards: adolescent girls reflect on educational choices Christine Mann 3. Perspectives on learning difficulties through biographies Hilary Dickinson 4. The story of the self: 1ducation, experience and autobiography Robin Usher 5. Student drop-out: collecting biographies in the further education context on missing population Michelene Page 6. Voices from margins: regulation and resistance in the lives of lesbian teachers Gill Clarke 7. Narratology, reflection and individual subjectivity: inscribing of teachers in New Right discourses 1979-1997 David Scott 8. Nineteenth Century non-conformist lives, voluntarism and educational expansion Diana Jones 9. PhD students and the life of learning Zoe Parker 10. An auto/biographical account of educational experience Brian Lewis 11. Biography and slavery as a background to citizenship education Peter Figuaroa
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TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical connections between narratives and social representations in health research are explored, and it is argued that through the telling of narratives, a community is engaged in the process of creating a social representation while at the same time drawing upon a broader collective representation.
Abstract: According to narrative theory, human beings are natural story-tellers, and investigating the character of the stories people tell can help us better understand not only the particular events described but also the character of the story-teller and of the social context within which the stories are constructed. Much of the research on the character of narratives has focussed on their internal structure and has not sufficiently considered their social nature. There has been limited attempt to connect narrative with social representation theory. This article explores further the theoretical connections between narratives and social representations in health research. It is argued that, through the telling of narratives, a community is engaged in the process of creating a social representation while at the same time drawing upon a broader collective representation. The article begins by reviewing some of the common origins of the two approaches and then moves to consider a number of empirical studies of popular views of health and illness that illustrate the interconnections between the two approaches. It concludes that narratives are intimately involved in the organization of social representations
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