The mind and its stories: narrative universals and human emotion

Half-Title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 17
LITERATURE AS A HUMAN ACT......Page 18
UNIVERSALISM AND CULTURAL STUDY......Page 23
UNIVERSALITY AND NARRATIVE: RESEARCH PROGRAMS, RESEARCH METHODS......Page 26
THE STRUCTURE OF A THEORY OF UNIVERSALS......Page 33
EXPLAINING LITERARY UNIVERSALS: THE NATURE OF A RESEARCH PROGRAM......Page 46
CONCLUSION......Page 60
2 Emotion and Suggestion......Page 61
ANANDAVARDHANA AND SUGGESTION......Page 62
ABHINAVAGUPTA, MEMORY TRACES, AND AESTHETICAL FEELING......Page 67
COGNITION AND LEXICAL STRUCTURES......Page 70
COGNITION, MEMORY, AND RASADHVANI......Page 78
OBJECTS, CAUSES, AND SOURCES OF EMOTION......Page 85
A BRIEF ILLUSTRATION......Page 87
CONCLUSION......Page 90
DEFINING EMOTIONS AND NARRATIVE......Page 92
EMPATHY AND EMOTION PROTOTYPES......Page 97
FIRST HYPOTHESIS: THE PROTOTYPE BASIS OF EMOTION TERMS......Page 99
SECOND HYPOTHESIS: THE BASIS OF PROTOTYPICAL STORIES IN EMOTION PROTOTYPES......Page 102
TYPOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL RELATIONS AMONG EMOTIONS......Page 105
THIRD HYPOTHESIS: ROMANTIC UNION AND POWER AS THE PROTOTYPES FOR HAPPINESS AND THE BASES FOR PROTOTYPICAL NARRATIVES......Page 110
FINAL HYPOTHESIS: THE UNIVERSALITY OF ROMANTIC AND HEROIC TRAGI-COMEDY AND THEIR DERIVATION FROM PERSONAL AND SOCIAL…......Page 114
ROMANTIC TRAGI-COMEDY......Page 117
HEROIC TRAGI-COMEDY......Page 125
CONCLUSION......Page 134
4 Writing Beyond the Ending......Page 138
ANOMALIES OF HEROISM: THE EPILOGUE OF SUFFERING......Page 139
SPIRITUAL TRANSCENDENCE AS ROMANCE AND RECONCILIATION......Page 144
ETHICAL TRAUMAS OF HEROISM......Page 147
TWO TYPES OF EMPATHY AND THE MORALLY CONFLICTED WORLD......Page 155
CONCLUSION......Page 166
LYRIC POEMS AS IMPLICIT PLOTS: THE NARRATIVE HYPOTHESIS......Page 168
LYRIC POEMS IN NARRATIVES......Page 172
HEROISM AND ROMANCE......Page 176
EULOGY AND NATURE: SOME COMPLICATIONS OF THE NARRATIVE HYPOTHESIS......Page 182
RELIGIOUS LYRIC POETRY AND THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF SPIRITUALITY......Page 185
CONCLUSION......Page 187
TESTING AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS IN LITERARY NARRATIVE......Page 188
AINU EPIC......Page 191
SACRIFICIAL TRAGI-COMEDY......Page 202
CROSS-CULTURAL EVIDENCE FOR SACRIFICIAL NARRATIVES......Page 206
A NOTE ON ETHICS AND SACRIFICIAL TRAGI-COMEDY......Page 214
CONCLUSION......Page 216
7 The Structure of Stories......Page 218
THE TELIC NATURE OF PLOT......Page 220
The Agent......Page 221
Empathic and Nonempathic Agents......Page 228
Ancillary Characters......Page 230
The Causal Sequence......Page 233
Goals......Page 237
A NOTE ON EMOTIONAL INTENSIFICATION......Page 243
PLACE, TIME, AND SOCIAL ORDER......Page 244
THE COMMON FORM OF PROTOTYPICAL NARRATIVES......Page 246
CONCLUSION......Page 254
CONVENTION, FEELING, AND SOCIAL FUNCTION......Page 255
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF EMOTION......Page 268
CONCLUSION......Page 279
Works Cited......Page 281
Index......Page 301