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- Title
- The Pleasure and pathology of narrative
- Related
- Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) (30 September - 2 October 2009 : Sydney)
- Related
- Christensen, Wayne; Schier, Elizabeth and Sutton, John. ASCS09 : proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, p.114-118
- DOI
- 10.5096/ASCS200918
- Publisher
- North Ryde, NSW : Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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200500 Literary Studies
200300 Language Studies
- Author/Creator
- Green, Susan
- Description
- Literary texts, in particular novels, provide unique ways of representing and exploring the workings of the human mind. Our capacity and willingness to be immersed in an alternative world through the power of narrative suggests our peculiar sensitivity to this form of communication and its capacity to structure our experience. But our hunger for narrative suggests a desire for knowledge as well as a desire for the 'right' story: when this desiring in the imagination motivates behaviour and affects decisions, narrative can become dangerous. This paper investigates the power of narrative in Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (2001). It explores narrative imagination as an asset as well as an affliction; the role of confabulation; and the destructive power of narrative in terms of what these phenomena, when represented in fiction, can tell us about the human mind.
- Description
- 5 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200500 Literary Studies
- Subject Keyword
- 200300 Language Studies
- Subject Keyword
- narrative
- Subject Keyword
- confabulation
- Subject Keyword
- literary fiction
- Subject Keyword
- consciousness
- Resource Type
- ASCS09 : Proceedings Of The 9th Conference Of The Australasian Society For Cognitive Science
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of English
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/126831
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646529189
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009011739
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, ASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
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