Description: This book illustrates the link that unites memory, thought, and narration, and explores how the act of telling helps people to understand themselves and others. The structure of the book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the aspect of narrative comprehension-the person as narrator. It identifies two different origins of narrative comprehension (memory and play) and argues that the narratives we produce starting from autobiographical memory are intended to give order and meaning to events that happened in the past, in order to be able to interpret the present. Conversely, the narratives we produce starting from play are aesthetically constructed, not forced to respect reality, and because of this create potential new worlds of understanding. The second part of this book is devoted to the study of narrative understanding as an understanding of the other. Chapters examine the different points of view a listener can adopt in order to interpret the text produced by a narrator and how these points of view can interact with each other. The book concludes with a consideration of narrative comprehension in the digital world, and examines the principal effects of stories and narrative on the notion of self in the realm of the "Internet galaxy." Telling to Understand will be of interest to researchers and students in cognitive science, psychology, literary studies, philosophy, education, and educational technology, as well as any reader interested in enlarging their concept of narrative and how narrating modifies the self.
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EAN: 9783030431600
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Book Title: Telling to Understand: The Impact of Narrative on
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Telling to Understand: the Impact of Narrative on Autobiographical Memory
Publisher: Springer
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Psychology
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 562 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Andrea Smorti
Subject Area: Biological Psychology, Personality Psychology
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover