Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803230028
• ISBN13: 9780803230026
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"