Metaphors Narratives Emotions

Author : Stefán Snævarr
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027797
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions written by Stefán Snævarr and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0190698918
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banned Emotions written by Laura Otis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212074
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Economics written by Robert J. Shiller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tilmann Habermas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703213X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion and Narrative written by Tilmann Habermas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.

Author : Dorit Bar-On
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191532428
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking My Mind written by Dorit Bar-On and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Oscar Jiménez
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004505733
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11-22 written by Oscar Jiménez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0765707837
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy written by Pat Pernicano and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elisabeth El Refaie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190678178
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives written by Elisabeth El Refaie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way the world is perceived in early childhood (e.g., happy/good is up, understanding is seeing) persist in our conceptual system, influencing our thoughts throughout life at a mostly unconscious level. What happens, though, when ordinary embodied experience is disrupted by illness? In this book, Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration due to disease. She analyzes visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives (book-length stories about disease in the comics medium), re-examining embodiment in traditional CMT and proposing the notion of "dynamic embodiment." Building on recent strands of research within CMT and engaging relevant concepts from phenomenology, psychology, semiotics, and media studies, El Refaie demonstrates how the experience of our own bodies is constantly adjusting to changes in our individual states of health, socio-cultural practices, and the modes and media by which we communicate. This fundamentally interdisciplinary work also proposes a novel classification system of visual metaphor, based on a three-way distinction between pictorial, spatial, and stylistic metaphors. This approach will enable readers to advance knowledge and understanding of phenomena involved in shaping our everyday thoughts, interactions, and behavior.

Author : Stefán Snævarr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004523812
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetic of Reason: Introducing Rational Poetic Experimentalism written by Stefán Snævarr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Erin M. Heim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339876
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption in Galatians and Romans written by Erin M. Heim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new study on the Pauline adoption metaphors, Erin Heim applies a wide array of contemporary theories of metaphor in a fresh exegesis of the four instances of adoption (huiothesia) metaphors in Galatians and Romans.