[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [xmca] Re: fiction as simulation



Thanks, Mike, for this very useful article. This relates a lot to what I have been trying to do these past few years and it pulls the adult literature well together. My work has centered more on preschoolers spontaneous (fantasy) stories and I have tried to find ways to analyze them, which goes beyond just using structural criteria but also incorporates content in a serious way (that is, it incorporates content and structure). I have also argued (as do Mar & Oatley, but for adults) for the significant of character in children's narratives (whether for learning to comprehend or tell stories) and I'm continuing to think about these issues. More recently, I have devoted my attention/effort in creating an intervention programs using commercially available children's books to promote narrative comprehension as well as social understanding, especially for low-income children. As I'm in the midst of writing about these issues, this article is very useful.

Thanks again,
Ageliki

--
**********************************************
Ageliki Nicolopoulou
Professor, Department of Psychology
Lehigh University
17 Memorial Drive East
Bethlehem, PA  18015-3068

Personal Webpage:      http://www.lehigh.edu/~agn3/index.htm
Departmental Webpage:  http://www.lehigh.edu/~inpsy/nicolopoulou.html
**********************************************


mike cole wrote:
Of course, i *would *forget to attach the article. Here it is.
mike

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:56 PM, mike cole<lchcmike@gmail.com>  wrote:

Sorting through all the unread journals and seeking to bring order to the
helterskelter
of my intellectual meanderings, i came across this article that I think
should hold some
interest for xmca-o-philes.

As some of you know, I have an abiding interest in the idea of tertiary
artifacts, works of
art, for Wartofsky (so I learned from Yrjo), play, "alternative worlds"
like the 5th Dimension
that Peg Griffin invented and I have played in for a long time. But I also
teach and think (think and
teach?) about various communication media including novels and sitcoms.
This article caught
my attention in that odd nexus of interests: fiction as "simulations," or,
we might say, tertiary artifacts, or we might say, "tools to think with."

Delete or read along, as the mood catches you.
mike


_______________________________________________
xmca mailing list
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca

_______________________________________________
xmca mailing list
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca