[PDF] Metaphors Narratives Emotions eBook

Author : Stefán Snævarr
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9042027797

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This book argues that there is a complex logical and epistemological interplay between the concepts of metaphor, narrative, and emotions. They share a number of important similarities and connections. In the first place, all three are constituted by aspect-seeing, the seeing-as or perception of Gestalts. Secondly, all three are meaning-endowing devices, helping us to furnish our world with meaning. Thirdly, the threesome constitutes a trinity. Emotions have both a narrative and metaphoric structure, and we can analyse the concepts of metaphors and narratives partly in each other's terms. Further, the concept of narratives can partly be analysed in the terms of emotions. And if emotions have both a narrative structure and a metaphoric one, then the concept of emotions must to some extent be analysable through the concepts of narratives and metaphors. But there is more. Metaphors (especially poetic ones) are important tools for the understanding of the tacit sides of emotions, perhaps because of the metaphoric structure of emotions. The notion that narrations can be tools for understanding emotions follows from two facts: narrations are devices for explanation and emotions have a narrative structure. Fourthly, the threesome has an impact on our rationality. It has become commonplace to say that emotions have a cognitive content, that narratives have an explanatory function, and that metaphors can perform cognitive functions. This book is the first attempt to articulate the implications that these new ways of seeing the three concepts entail for our concept of reason. The cognitive roles of the threesome suggest a richer notion of rationality than has traditionally been held, a rationality enlivened with metaphoric, narrative, and emotive qualities. Stefan Snaevarr (Reykjavik, 1953) studied philosophy and related subjects in Norway and Germany. Professor at Lillehammer University College in Norway, he is the author of several books of various kind in English, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Author : Laura Otis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0190698918

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Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's emotional experiences? Banned Emotions, written by neuroscientist-turned-literary scholar Laura Otis, draws on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to challenge popular attempts to suppress certain emotions. This interdisciplinary book breaks taboos by exploring emotions in which people are said to "indulge": self-pity, prolonged crying, chronic anger, grudge-bearing, bitterness, and spite. By focusing on metaphors for these emotions in classic novels, self-help books, and popular films, Banned Emotions exposes their cultural and religious roots. Examining works by Dante, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Forster, and Woolf in parallel with Bridesmaids, Fatal Attraction, and Who Moved My Cheese?, Banned Emotions traces pervasive patterns in the ways emotions are represented that can make people so ashamed of their feelings, they may stifle emotions they need to work through. The book argues that emotion regulation is a political as well as a biological issue, affecting not only which emotions can be expressed, but who can express them, when, and how.

Author : Dorit Bar-On
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191532428

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Dorit Bar-On develops and defends a novel view of avowals and self-knowledge. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of language, the theory of action, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, she offers original and systematic answers to many long-standing questions concerning our ability to know our own minds. We are all very good at telling what states of mind we are in at a given moment. When it comes to our own present states of mind, what we say goes; an avowal such as "I'm feeling so anxious" or "I'm thinking about my next trip to Paris," it is typically supposed, tells it like it is. But why is that? Why should what I say about my present mental states carry so much more weight than what others say about them? Why should avowals be more immune to criticism and correction than other claims we make? And if avowals are not based on any evidence or observation, how could they possibly express our knowledge of our own present mental states? Bar-On proposes a Neo-Expressivist view according to which an avowal is an act through which a person directly expresses, rather than merely reports, the very mental condition that the avowal ascribes. She argues that this expressivist idea, coupled with an adequate characterization of expression and a proper separation of the semantics of avowals from their pragmatics and epistemology, explains the special status we assign to avowals. As against many expressivists and their critics, she maintains that such an expressivist explanation is consistent with a non-deflationary view of self-knowledge and a robust realism about mental states. The view that emerges preserves many insights of the most prominent contributors to the subject, while offering a new perspective on our special relationship to our own minds.

Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691212074

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From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

Author : Kamila Walker
Publisher :
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2013
Category : English fiction
ISBN :

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"This thesis analyzes the conventional conceptual metaphors and metonymies of emotions in George Eliot's Middlemarch and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, by relying on synthesized ideas from Cognitive Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies and Psychology, whilst remaining sensitive to the specific historical-cultural settings in which the novels are embedded. The task of this interdisciplinary approach is to bring to light the consistency of English and Russian speakers' common conceptions of shame, pride and anger, by discussing the fictional narratives as instantiations of typical modes of comprehending and talking about emotions. The metaphorical representations of emotions are argued here to give an account of the distinct spatial-temporal context in which they arise, but the inescapable, universal embodied experience causes these representations not to betray any totally unexpected motivational sources: the unity of metaphors of emotions in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina is essentially amenable to actual human physiology. Within this orientation, an inquiry into the biological basis of the figurative language embedded in realist discourse reveals that the novel contributes more to a broader understanding of the so-called "experiential cognition" across the two cultures (tacit knowledge of certain physiological patterns and instinctual impulses specific to a particular emotion) - the larger project of Cognitive Linguistics - than has been previously acknowledged. This study makes use of current Conceptual Metaphor Theory as part of a literary analysis of the two focal novels, to address the questions: 'In what way do metaphors of emotions in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina conform to the universality of biological experience?' and 'How is this metaphoric language of the novels indispensable for communicating a standard for moral conduct in any particular situation?'. It thereby explores how Eliot's and Tolstoy's construction of language is motivated - and constrained - by fairly calculable physiological reactions, and offers a fresh literary analysis that considers the generation of metaphors to be an individual act of artistic creation, one nevertheless that is less distinctly cultural and more definitively biologically-determined." -- abstract.

Author : Tilmann Habermas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110703213X

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The way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.

Author : Oscar Jiménez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004505733

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This linguistically informed study of Ephesians 2:11-22 in its original language and historical context will aid readers’ understanding of Ephesians. This book develops a fully articulated methodology to approach metaphors and narrative patterns in the New Testament epistles.

Author : Pat Pernicano
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0765707837

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Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy: Of Magic and Miracles is a book of creative, memorable metaphorical stories for use in a variety of child treatments, including play therapy, cognitive behavioral interventions, narrative therapy, hypnotherapy, and expressive therapy. The author translates central child therapy issues into metaphorical stories designed to reduce client defensiveness and provide an 'aha' that springboards the client toward insight and change.

Author : Marshall Walker
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category :
ISBN :

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Emotional Metaphors is a collection of short stories. I wrote each of these stories from the ages of 23 to 26. Most of these stories were written to help me express a feeling or idea that I was having at the time. They are pure raw emotion.

Author : Stefán Snævarr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004523812

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This book introduces and explores Rational Poetic Experimentalism (RPE). According to RPE, it makes sense to regard reason as poetic. Regarding reason this way is the result of experimenting with philosophical ideas. Such experimentation might lead to philosophical truths which might seem very difficult to discover.