Mike
PS. Milan Kundera's the art of novel might be an interesting bet as
well...
David
On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
> Too many elusive allusions in the Bruner book for my students,
> David, but I
> agree it is interesting. There is a lot of interesting stuff on
> autobiographical memory and narrative, but it tends to have a
> strong set of
> presuppositions about concern with psychology which overlaps with,
> but does
> not encompass, communication,
> which is the department the course is taught in.
> mike
> On 1/3/07, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:
>>
>> Have you seen the last book by Bruner entitled Making Stories. It is
>> short, readable and a very good introduction.If not there is a volume
>> entitled autobiographical memory and the construction of a
>> narrative self by
>> Fivush at LEA that might suit your needs.
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>>
>> Hi All-- I have pestered people on this list a lot to get a way to
>> introduce
>> students BRIEFLY to writing about narrative for a Comm class (not
>> a psych
>> or education class). I have found the bruner "two kinds of thought"
>> article
>> too dense for my students once JSB moves from his sketch of
>> paradigmatic
>> thought into narrative because the allusions and references are too
>> arcane.
>> But I have come across H. P. Abbot, The cambridge introduction to
>> narrative
>> which has an excellent set of intro chapters that are brief and
>> more or
>> less
>> readable. The rest of the book looks interesting but I go in a
>> different
>> direction
>> in the course so can't say how others might use it.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience.
>> Fyi
>>
>> mike
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>>
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Escuela de Psicología
Av Vicuña Mackenna 4860
Macul, Santiago
Chile
Fono: 3544605
Fax: 3544844
e-mail: davidpreiss@uc.cl
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