Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

Hernadi, Paul; Cohn, Dorrit

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“…The Holistic Subindex is composed of two subsections for terms that describe or evaluate either the generic form a narrative takes or the whole impression of the narrative as it is expressed by the narrator to the interpreter of the narrative. One of the terms listed under Generic Form is internal analysis, which refers to statements about the gist of a given communication that specifically reveals thoughts or feelings of the narrator or the referred participant (Chatman, 1978;Cohn, 1978. ) An excerpt from a trauma narrative that reflects internal analysis may yield insights into that narrator's struggle to make sense of his or her life.…”

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Analyzing trauma narratives: Introducing the Narrative Form Index and Matrix.

Albright

Duggan

Epstein

2008

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Purpose: Narrative form research is introduced as a unique, qualitative approach to studying narrative material, particularly trauma narratives. This methodology incorporates new analytic tools: Narrative Form Index (NFI) and Narrative Form Index Matrix (NFIM). Research Method/Design: The NFI is a standard set of narrative terms that provides a critical inventory of forms useful in processing the structure, context, and whole elements of narratives. The NFIM uses forms inventoried in the NFI as variables for finding, connecting, and displaying relevant narrative text within a matrix. Together, these companion analytic tools allow for the direct transmission of meaningfully sifted narrative data. Results: Employing the NFI and NFIM in relation to a research transcript, the authors demonstrate how narrative material is identified for inclusion in a matrix. Once arranged in a matrix, rich narrative data is available for further analysis. Conclusions/Implications: Content and form analysis and direct transmission of narrative data embodied in this approach provide salient and accurate results in qualitative data management and inference. The analytic tools described have applications for rehabilitation research and practice and can be downloaded from the authors' Web site.

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Section: The Nfi and Nfim: Further Elaborationmentioning

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Analyzing trauma narratives: Introducing the Narrative Form Index and Matrix.

Albright

Duggan

Epstein

2008

Rehabilitation Psychology

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“…Com base nos insumos teórico-analíticos do modelo de Cohn (1978), podemos perceber como a relação de proximidade entre o eu da narrativa e o eu da experiência é manipulada pelo narrador, em função de seus interesses. Observo que o eu da narrativa assume um posicionamento dissonante em relação ao eu da experiência, distanciando-se perspectivamente dos eventos ocorridos.…”

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A idiossincrasia afetiva da experiência: (re-)investigando o medo de falar inglês através de uma perspectiva vygotskiana

Abreu

2016

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O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar como o medo é discursivamente construído em narrativas compartilhadas no contexto de sala de aula. Para tanto, apoio-me no conceito de perezhivanie (VYGOTSKY, 1993) e na distinção proposta pelo autor entre o sentido e o significado das palavras. O arcabouço teórico dessa pesquisa fundamenta-se no entendimento dos afetos como construções sócio-discursivas (BELLI, 2009), que se concretizam sequencialmente quando estruturados em narrativas (HANNINEN, 2003; EDWARDS, 1997). Como ferramenta de análise dos dados, lanço mão do modelo de análise de narrativa desenvolvido por Cohn (1978). A metodologia aqui proposta insere-se no viés da pesquisa qualitativa. Serão analisadas duas narrativas geradas em sala de aula que versam sobre o medo. As análises sugerem que o nível de consonância entre o eu da narrativa e o eu da experiência (COHN, 1978) é constantemente manipulado pelos narradores, visando a atender aos seus interesses sociais vigentes em cada interação.

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“…When philosophers or psychologists discuss consciousness, they like to include quotations from literature: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Kafka's K and Woolf's Mrs Dalloway are said to provide a way into this elusive phenomenon. A long line of literary scholars have highlighted the literary devices for presenting consciousness [1], illustrated their role in the development of literary narrative [2], and outlined the features of 'fictional minds' [3]. Such encounters between the study of consciousness and the study of literature are by no means coincidental, since, as I am going to argue in this paper, literary narratives are a prime mode through which we as humans can explore consciousness.…”

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Designs on consciousness: literature and predictive processing

Kukkonen

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Predictive processing is a recent approach in cognitive science that describes the brain as an engine of probabilistic hierarchical inference. Initially proposed as a general theory of brain function, predictive processing has recently been expanding to account for questions of consciousness in philosophy and neuroscience. In my previous work (Kukkonen 2020 Probability designs: literature and predictive processing . New York, NY: Oxford University Press), I have shown how predictive processing can also be used to model our engagement with literary texts. In this article, I use my account of our engagement with literature in predictive processing terms, as well as recent work on predictive processing and consciousness, to explore how literature can shed light on various aspects of conscious experience, including qualia, counterfactual depth in conscious experience and sense of self. In the final section, I propose a number of theoretical questions that could be addressed by drawing on literature as a source of hypotheses and stimuli for possible experimental designs. The upshot is a picture where literature is not just a source of illustrative examples about conscious experience, but a designer environment through which we can explore and rethink consciousness. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives’.

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Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

Cited by 14 publications

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Analyzing trauma narratives: Introducing the Narrative Form Index and Matrix.

Analyzing trauma narratives: Introducing the Narrative Form Index and Matrix.

A idiossincrasia afetiva da experiência: (re-)investigando o medo de falar inglês através de uma perspectiva vygotskiana

Designs on consciousness: literature and predictive processing

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