Making Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jerome Bruner
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Law, literary theory, and psychology
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Psychology, Law and jurisprudence
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Self, Literature, Law or legislation, Storytelling, Lawyers, Reading, Greek or Roman times
Based on a series of lectures given at the University of Bologna, this modest little book breaks no new ground for cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner. He covered the material in chapter 1, “The Uses of Story,” in much more detail in Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1987). The ideas in chapter 2, “The Legal and the Literary,” are derived largely from the more complex book he cowrote with professor of law Anthony Amsterdam, Minding the Law (2000). Chapter 3, “The Narrative Creation of Self,” is based on current theories of a number of thinkers, primarily James...
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