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The search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nightly experience of dreams. Dreams and memories are inseparable, complicating and building upon one another, reminding us that knowledge of ourselves based on our memories relies upon fictionalized narratives we create for ourselves. Psychologists refer to confabulation, the creation of false or distorted memories about oneself and the world we inhabit, albeit without any conscious intention to deceive. This process and narrative, inherent in the dreamlife of all people, is at odds with the daily menu of cultural myths and politicized fictions fed to the Western world through print and social media, and for which there is constant divisiveness and disagreement.
Cognitive Narratology and the Shared Identity of Myth uses insights gained from the scientific study of dreaming to explain how the shared experience of dreamlife can work in service to the common good. Primary texts and literary works, chosen for their influence on contemporary thinking, provide a rationale and historical background: From Artemidorus (a professional diviner) and Aristotle; to the Church fathers ā Tertullian, St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Sinesius of Cyrene; to The Wanderer (Old English poem) and Chaucerās Book of the Duchess; to Coleridgeās writings and R. L. Stevensonās āA Chapter on Dreamsā; and to twentieth-century dream theory, and dream use in film. The purpose is to enable readers through subjective self-analysis to recognize what they share with their fellow dreamers; shared identity in formation of a shared act of dreaming creation is a universal across centuries and throughout Western culture, albeit currently misrepresented and rarely acted upon.
EdituraSussex Academic Press
Dimensiuni335 x 238 x 17
Data Publicarii28/05/2019
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Numar pagini296
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Cautarea unei practici comune de povestire in jurul careia s-ar putea forma un studiu popular al naratologiei cognitive nu trebuie sa arate mai departe decat experienta noastra nocturna a viselor. Visele si amintirile sunt inseparabile, se complica si se construiesc unul pe altul, amintindu-ne ca cunoasterea despre noi insine bazata pe amintirile noastre se bazeaza pe naratiuni fictive pe care le cream pentru noi insine.