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OverviewNarratives 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory Currie (Nottingham University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.597kg ISBN: 9780199282609ISBN 10: 0199282609 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 18 February 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Analytical contents 1: Representation 2: The content of narrative 3: Two ways of looking at a narrative 4: Authors and narrators 5: Expression and imitation 6: Resistance 7: Character-focused narration 8: Irony: a pretended point of view 9: Dis-interpretation 10: Narrative and character 11: Character scepticism In Conclusion Bibliography IndexesReviewsabounds in analyses and arguments as Currie identifies and interrogates (generally successfully) strong counter-theses that challenge his own Daniel D. Hutto, Times Literary Supplement I expect Gregory Currie's new book, Narratives and Narrators, to attain the same importance and influence in philosophical thinking about narrative that his earlier books The Nature of Fiction and Image and Mind have had in the philosophy of fiction and film, respectively. It is an ambitious, careful, and philosophically rich work containing a number of novel and important arguments... The book has many virtues, and the greates of them might be that it opens up new areas for exploration in the philosophic study of narrative. James Harold, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This fairly short book does a lot of work ... consistently challenging * Raphael Lyne, Cambridge Quarterly * The book is ambitious in its topics and contains fresh approaches to various traditional problems ... full of thought-provoking arguments and intriguing proposals. * Jukka Mikkonen, Mind * I expect Gregory Currie's new book, Narratives and Narrators, to attain the same importance and influence in philosophical thinking about narrative that his earlier books The Nature of Fiction and Image and Mind have had in the philosophy of fiction and film, respectively. It is an ambitious, careful, and philosophically rich work containing a number of novel and important arguments... The book has many virtues, and the greatest of them might be that it opens up new areas for exploration in the philosophic study of narrative. * James Harold, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * abounds in analyses and arguments as Currie identifies and interrogates (generally successfully) strong counter-theses that challenge his own * Daniel D. Hutto, Times Literary Supplement * a rich study. * Adriana Boneta, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory * Rich with examples drawn from both literature and film ... the book makes an interesting and important contribution not only to our understanding of the nature of narratives but also to the nature of our engagement with them. * Amy Kind, The Philosophical Quarterly * I expect Gregory Currie's new book, Narratives and Narrators, to attain the same importance and influence in philosophical thinking about narrative that his earlier books The Nature of Fiction and Image and Mind have had in the philosophy of fiction and film, respectively. It is an ambitious, careful, and philosophically rich work containing a number of novel and important arguments... The book has many virtues, and the greates of them might be that it opens up new areas for exploration in the philosophic study of narrative. James Harold, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationGregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |