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Book: The Travelling Concepts of Narrative

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Title: The Travelling Concepts of Narrative
Series Title: Studies in Narrative 18

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/sin.18

Editor: Mari Hatavara
Editor: Lars-Christer Hydén
Editor: Matti Hyvärinen

Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 95.00

Abstract:

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it
has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history,
cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of
narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,
the travels for the concept itself have been a somewhat more complex. Has the
concept of narrative passed intact from literature to sociology, from
structuralism to therapeutic practice or to the study of everyday
storytelling? In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, literary theorists,
sociolinguists, and sociologists use methodologically challenging test cases
to scrutinise the types, transformations, and trajectories of the concept and
theory of narrative. The book powerfully argues that narrative concepts are
profoundly relevant in the understanding of life, experience, and literary
texts. Nonetheless, it emphasises the vast contextual differences and
contradictions in the use of the concept.