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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Elements | |
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| Getting Started: A Thumbnail Sketch of the Approach | |
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| Toward a Working Definition of Narrative | |
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| Profiles of Narrative | |
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| Narrative: Basic Elements | |
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| Framing the Approach: Some Background and Context | |
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| Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Narrative Theory | |
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| Major Trends in Recent Scholarship on Narrative | |
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| Back to the Elements: Narrative Occasions | |
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| Situating Stories | |
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| Sociolinguistic Approaches | |
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| Positioning Theory | |
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| The Narrative Communication Model | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Temporality, Particularity, and Narrative: An Excursion into the Theory of Text Types | |
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| From Contexts of Narration to Narrative as a Type of Text | |
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| Text Types and Categorization Processes | |
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| Narrative as a Text-Type Category: Descriptions versus Stories versus Explanations | |
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| Coda: Text Types, Communicative Competence, and the Role of Stories in Science | |
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| The Third Element; or, How to Build a Storyworld | |
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| Narratives as Blueprints for Worldmaking | |
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| Narrative Ways of Worldmaking | |
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| Narrative Worlds: A Survey of Approaches | |
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| Configuring Narrative Worlds: The WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN Dimensions of Storyworlds | |
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| Worlds Disrupted: Narrativity and Noncanonical Events | |
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| The Nexus of Narrative and Mind | |
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| The Consciousness Factor | |
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| Consciousness across Narrative Genres | |
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| Experiencing Minds: What It's Like, Qualia, Raw Feels | |
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| Storied Minds: Narrative Foundations of Consciousness? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Literary Narrative: Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) | |
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| Narrative Told during Face-to-Face Communication: UFO or the Devil (2002) | |
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| Excerpted Panels from Ghost World (1997), a Graphic Novel by Daniel Clowes | |
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| Screenshots from Terry Zwigoff's Film Version of Ghost World (2001) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |