Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature (Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature Studies)

Discourse has broken through the barriers of literature and linguistics and dominates the way we relate to each other and to the world. This is the view shared by the uniquely cross-disciplinary group of writers who contribute to this book. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of philosophy and literature.

Narrative in Culture examines how narrative works in different arenas. It presents essays by specialists in philosophy, literary theory, politics, psychoanalysis, the history of science, law and economics. Narrative and discourse dominate the way we relate to each other and to the world. No longer confined to literature and linguistics, the study of narrative has spread to all disciplines with the discovery that "storytelling" is more pervasive and more important in contemporary culture than previously suspected.

Contributors: Michael Bell, J. M. Bernstein, Christine Brooke-Rose, Rom Harre, Bernard S. Jackson, Peter Lamarque, Donald N. McCloskey, Greg Myers, Cristopher Nash.

Discourse can no longer be contained within the frameworks of literature and linguistics. It has broken through the barriers between subjects and dominates the way we relate to each other and to the world. Even where we least expect it, `storytelling'is going on, and the implications of this are vast. This is the view universally shared by the writers contributing to this book. Specialists in economics, law, the history and semiotics of science, psychology, politics, philosophy, and literary theory and criticism, they are a uniquely cross-disciplinary group. Discourse has broken through the barriers of literature and linguistics and dominates the way we relate to each other and to the world. This is the view shared by the uniquely cross-disciplinary group of contributors to Narrative in Culture . It is good to tell the story of science and art, economics and the nineteenth-century novel, the marginal productivity theory of distribution and the tradition of the Horatian ode as similarly as possible. Edited By Cristopher Nash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.