Story logic. Problems and possibilities of narrative

David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that help humans make sense of their world, narratives not only have a logic but also are a logic in their own right, providing an irreplaceable resource for structuring and comprehending experience.This volume brings together and pointedly examines key concepts of narrative in literary criticism, linguistics, and cognitive science, supplementing them with a battery of additional concepts that enable many different kinds of narratives to be analysed and understood. By thoroughly tracing and synthesising the development of different strands of narrative theory and provocatively critiquing what narratives are and how they work, Story Logic provides an interpretative tool kit that broadens the applicability of narrative theory to more complex forms of stories, however and wherever they appear.