E-grāmata: Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes across-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. Thiscross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind intoscholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies andresearch in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people makesense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narrativesfrom different periods and across multiple media and genres, Herman shows how traditions ofnarrative research can help shape ways of formulating and addressing questions about intelligentactivity, and vice versa.

Using case studies that range from Robert LouisStevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to sequences from The IncredibleHulk comics to narratives told in everyday interaction, Herman considers storytelling bothas a target for interpretation and as a resource for making sense of experience itself. In doing so,he puts ideas from narrative scholarship into dialogue with such fields as psycholinguistics,philosophy of mind, and cognitive, social, and ecological psychology. After exploring ways in whichinterpreters of stories can use textual cues to build narrative worlds, or storyworlds, Hermaninvestigates how this process of narrative worldmaking in turn supports efforts to understand -- andengage with -- the conduct of persons, among other aspects of lived experience.