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Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories
Patrick Colm Hogan
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Description for Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories
Hardback.
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 stories.
Hogan also makes a case for the ... Read more
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 stories.
Hogan also makes a case for the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803230026
SKU
V9780803230026
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Ref
99-1
About Patrick Colm Hogan
Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English in the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and in the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity.
Reviews for Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories
"I have no hesitation to call Patrick Hogan one of the most interesting scholars in literary theory."—Willie van Peer, Scientific Study of Literature