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D. Herman: "Developments in Cognitive Narratology"

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay (Source : John Pier)

David Herman (Ohio State University) donnera  une conférence publique le jeudi 5 février 2009 de 15 heures à 17 heures – Amphithéâtre – Ehess, 105, boulevard Raspail (Paris):

« Developments in Cognitive Narratology »

Writing in 1991, Mark Turnerpresciently argued in his book Reading Minds that the study ofliterature needs to set itself new goals in the age of cognitivescience. Specifically, Turner suggested that "[o]ur profession toucheshome base when it contributes to the systematic inquiry into […]linguistic and literary acts as acts of the human mind" (18). Turner'sproposal is to use ideas from cognitive linguistics to triangulateliterary scholarship with the study of language and mind. By contrast,using William Blake's 1794 poem "A Poison Tree" as a case study, Iargue that cognitive narratology needs to develop a research programthat is broader in scope than that outlined by Turner. As Blake'sverbal-visual methods of storytelling suggest, narrative can be viewedas a representational system that operates across various communicativemedia and enables people to use those media to structure, express, andcomprehend their experiences. Accordingly, cognitive narratology shouldaim to triangulate not just (literary) narratives, theories oflanguage, and research on the mind but, more capaciously, inquiry into(1) the structure and dynamics of storytelling practices; (2) themultiple semiotic systems in which those practices take shape,including but not limited to verbal language; and (3) mind-relevantdimensions of the practices themselves—as they play out in a givenmedium for storytelling. The paper draws on ideas from several fields,including linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, to investigateissues corresponding to different areas of intersection among thesethree key concerns. At the same time, however, the very concept oftriangulation suggests the need for cognitive narratology to movebeyond unidirectional borrowing—that is, the importation of ideas fromthe cognitive sciences into traditions of narrative study but not viceversa. Cognitive narratologists should adopt as a working assumptionthat scholarship on stories can in turn make important contributions tothe study of mind.

David Herman est l'auteur de :
Story Logic : Problems and Possiblities of Narrative (2002)
Basic Elements of Narrative (2009)

Il a dirigé ou co-dirigé :
Narratologies : New Perspectives in Narrative Theory (1999)
Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences (2003)
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2005)
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative (2007)

Un entretien récent avec David Herman est disponible en ligne à l'adresse suivante :

http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix13/sem-13-05-02.html

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David Herman interviendra également le 03 février dans le cadre du séminaire Narratologies contemporaines. Fiction et Cognition:

Séminaire du CRAL (CNRS/EHESS)

Responsables :
Annick Louis (Université de Reims), John Pier (Université de Tours),Philippe Roussin (CNRS) et Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
96, boulevard Raspail – 75006, 15h-17h
Salle Lombard

Séance du mardi 3 février 2009 :
David Herman
(Ohio State University)
« Storied Minds : Narrative Scaffolding for Folk Psychology »