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Stories, Meaning, and Experience In Stories, Meaning and Experience, Yanna Popova takes an original, inter- disciplinary approach to narrative, situating the study of stories within an enactive understanding of human cognition. Enactive approaches to cog- nition foreground the role of interaction in explanations of social under- standing, which includes the human practices of telling and reading stories. Such an understanding of narrative makes a decisive break with both text- centered approaches that have dominated structuralist and early cognitivist views of narrative meaning, as well as pragmatic ones that view narrative understanding as a form of linguistic implicature. Popova argues that the intersubjective experience that each narrative both affords and requires serves to highlight the active yet cooperative and communal nature of human sociality, expressed in the multiple forms of human interaction, of which storytelling is one. The understanding of narrative elaborated in this book cuts across many of the core issues in fields such as narratology, phi- losophy, cognitive psychology and traditional story grammars, providing a critically productive framework for exploring the enduring human pro- pensity to think and experience the world through stories. The theoretical discussion is supplemented with close readings of literary works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Henry James and Gabriel García Márquez. Yanna B. Popova has taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford, and was a founding member of the Department of Cognitive Sci- ence at Case Western Reserve University, USA. 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Popova First published 2015 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Taylor & Francis The right of Yanna Popova to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data has been applied for. ISBN: 978-0-415-71588-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-88048-8 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by ApexCoVantage, LLC For my mother, Hristina, and for Nia in inceptum finis est This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why We Have Stories 1 PART ONE 1 Perceptual Causality and Narrative Causality 13 2 Narrativity and Enaction: The Social Nature of Literary Narrative Understanding 51 3 Narrative and Metaphor: On Two Alternative Organizations of Human Experience 94 PART TWO 4 Narrativity and Enaction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 121 5 Narrative and Allegory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 137 6 Narrative and Metaphor in the Tales of Henry James 150 Afterword 173 References 179 Index 195 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Versions of some of the chapters in this book were given as colloquium talks and conference presentations at the Universities of the Basque Country (San Sebastian), British Columbia (Vancouver), Genoa, Malta, and Ohio State University. I thank the audiences on all these occasions for their comments and questions. Some of these chapters have their origins in papers that have been pre- viously published. Chapter Two is based on an article, “Narrativity and Enaction: the Social Nature of Literary Narrative Understanding”, origi- nally published in Frontiers in Psychology (2014), 5: 895. In Chapter Six I draw, with substantial changes, on some material from “The Figure in the Carpet: Discovery or Re-cognition”, in Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis, ed. by E. Semino and J. Culpeper (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002). I would like to thank the series editors (and, particularly, Michael Burke) for their careful editorial advice, and the four anonymous reviewers for their helpful remarks and suggestions.
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