Re: [xmca] Re: fiction as simulation

[Ageliki Nicolopoulou <agn3@Lehigh.EDU>]

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

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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
> >
> >      
> >
> >
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