Hyvärinen Matti, Hatavara Mari, Hydén Lars-Christer (Editors). The Travelling Concepts of Narrative

John Benjamins, 2013. — vi, 311 pages. — (Studies in Narrative). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7196-9.Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields, the travels for the concept itself have been a somewhat more complex. Has the concept of narrative passed intact from literature to sociology, from structuralism to therapeutic practice or to the study of everyday storytelling? In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, literary theorists, sociolinguists, and sociologists use methodologically challenging test cases to scrutinize the types, transformations, and trajectories of the concept and theory of narrative. The book powerfully argues that narrative concepts are profoundly relevant in the understanding of life, experience, and literary texts. Nonetheless, it emphasizes the vast contextual differences and contradictions in the use of the concept.Introduction, or another story of narrative
Exploring the narrative turns
Travelling metaphors, transforming concepts
Why narrative is here to stay: A return to origins
To the narrative turn and back:
The political impact of storytelling in feminism
Travelling with narrative: From text to body
Philosophical underpinnings of the narrative turn in theory and fition
Travelling between fition and non-fiction
Fact and fiction: Exploring the narrative mind
Broken or unnatural? On the distinction of fiction in non-conventional first person narration
Making sense in autobiography
“Unnatural” narratives? The case of second-person narration
Storytelling on the go: Breaking news as a travelling narrative genre
Travelling from body to story
Towards an embodied theory of narrative and storytelling
Fractured narratives: Psychology’s fragmented narrative psychology
Broken stories: Narrative vs. narration in travelling theories of cultural trauma
Concluding reflctions
Twists and turns: The circulation of narrative concepts across disciplines and cultures