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Narratives and Narrators - A Philosophy of Stories (Hardcover, New)
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Narratives and Narrators - A Philosophy of Stories (Hardcover, New)
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Narratives are artefacts of a special kind: they are intentionally
crafted devices which fulfil their story-telling function by
manifesting the intentions of their makers. But narrative itself is
too inclusive a category for much more to be said about it than
this; we should focus attention instead on the vaguely defined but
interesting category of things rich in narrative structure. Such
devices offer significant possibilities, not merely for the
representation of stories, but for the expression of point of view;
they have also played an important role in the evolution of
reliable communication. Narratives and narrators argues that much
of the pleasure of narrative communication depends on deep-seated
and early developing tendencies in human beings to imitation and to
joint attention, and imitation turns out to be the key to
understanding such important literary techniques as free indirect
discourse and character-focused narration. The book also examines
irony in narrative, with an emphasis on the idea of the expression
of ironic points of view. It looks closely at the idea of
character, or robust, situation-independent ways of acting and
thinking, as it is represented in narrative. It asks whether
scepticism about the notion of character should have us reassess
the dramatic and literary tradition which places such emphasis on
character.
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