The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

Patrick Colm Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. Hogan draws on world literature; experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts; and methodological principles from contemporary linguistics and philosophy of science. He concludes with a discussion of the relationship between the narrative,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521111412
• ISBN13: 9780521111416
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"