Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories

by Gregory Currie (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $121.95

  Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.