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The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patrick Colm Hogan
SeriesStudies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780521111416
ClassificationsDewey:808
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 1 Tables, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 7 May 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion. Hogan maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience emotion - literature. This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals. Professor Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of science. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.

Reviews

'Hogan's work usefully compares non-Europeans and 'Euro-American' conceptions of literary universals.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory