The Mind and its Stories : Narrative Universals and Human Emotion Paperback / softback
by Patrick Colm (University of Connecticut) Hogan
Part of the Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction series
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There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion.
Hogan maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience emotion - literature.
This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals.
Professor Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion.
In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of science.
He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 1 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780521111416
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 1 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780521111416