Beyond Narrative Coherence
Published on 13. January 2010
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-90-272-2651-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain incomplete, ambiguous, and contradictory. Obvious coherence cannot be the sole moral standard, the only perspective of reading, or the criterion for selecting and discarding research material. Beyond Narrative Coherence addresses the limits and aspects of narrative (dis)cohering by offering a rich theoretical and historical background to the debate. Limits of narrative coherence are discussed from the perspective of three fields of life that often threaten the coherence of narrative: illness, arts, and traumatic political experience. The authors of the book cover a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, arts studies, political science and philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2651-8 (9789027226518)
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Matti Hyvärinen | Lars-Christer Hydén | Marja Saarenheimo
Beyond Narrative Coherence
E-Book
01/2010
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
€113.99
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Content
1. Beyond narrative coherence: An introduction (by Hyvarinen, Matti); 2. Weird stories: Brain, mind, and self (by Medved, Maria I.); 3. Identity, self, narrative (by Hyden, Lars-Christer); 4. 'Mind-reading', a method for understanding the broken narrative of an aphasic man (by Aaltonen, Tarja); 5. Broken narratives, visual forces: Letters, paintings and the event (by Tamboukou, Maria); 6. Artists-in-progress: Narrative Identity of the Self as Another (by Sandino, Linda); 7. Breaking of self-narrative as a means of reorientation? (by Hanninen, Vilma); 8. "There is no fear in my lexicon" vs. "You are not normal if you won't be scared": A qualitative semiotic analysis of the 'broken' discourse of Israeli bus drivers who experienced terror attacks (by Perez, Alison Stern); 9. Beyond narrative: The shape of traumatic testimony (by Andrews, Molly); 10. Afterword: 'Even Amidst': Rethinking Narrative Coherence (by Freeman, Mark); 11. Index; 12. List of contributors