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Argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that help humans make sense of their world, narratives not only have a logic but also are a logic in their own right, providing an irreplaceable resource for structuring and comprehending experience.

Jarmila Mildorf's study makes a unique contribution to the fields of domestic abuse and narrative studies with her analysis of the narrative practices of doctors who treat abused women. Mildorf analyses the narrative trajectories, space-time parameters, agency, modalities, metaphors, and stereotypes in 36 narratives deriving from in-depth interviews with general practitioners in Aberdeen.

Everywhere you turn today, someone is talking to you - the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone. This book reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture.

An exploration of why humans are drawn to fictional stories through the application of evolution theory and cognitive science

Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization

In this interdisciplinary and groundbreaking collection of essays, distinguished scholars examine trends in the representation of consciousness in English-language narrative discourse from 700 to the present. Tracing commonalities and differences in the portrayal of fictional minds, The Emergence of Mind will have a lasting impact on literary studies, narratology, and other fields.

While plot is among the integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, this title demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies.

Explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?

In the beginning there was...the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups.