This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. This is a foundational text for students of linguistics, philosophy and literary theory.
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Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her previous publications include Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference (2002), Translation, Text and Theory: The Paradigm of India (ed: 2002) and Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom (1997).
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Zustand: New. "Narrative Gravity" explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. The cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett has suggested that human beings tell stories as compulsively as beavers build dams or birds nests. Num Pages: 440 pages, Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD; CFG; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9780415307352
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