Beyond Narrative Coherence

Editors

Matti Hyvärinen | University of Tampere

Lars-Christer Hydén | Linköping University

Marja Saarenheimo | Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged

Maria Tamboukou | University of East London

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Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain incomplete, ambiguous, and contradictory. Obvious coherence cannot be the sole moral standard, the only perspective of reading, or the criterion for selecting and discarding research material. Beyond Narrative Coherence addresses the limits and aspects of narrative (dis)cohering by offering a rich theoretical and historical background to the debate. Limits of narrative coherence are discussed from the perspective of three fields of life that often threaten the coherence of narrative: illness, arts, and traumatic political experience. The authors of the book cover a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, arts studies, political science and philosophy.

[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.11

Table of Contents

Beyond narrative coherence: An introduction

Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou | pp. 1–15

Weird stories: Brain, mind, and self

Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier | pp. 17–32

Identity, self, narrative

Lars-Christer Hydén | pp. 33–48

‘Mind-reading’, a method for understanding the broken narrative of an aphasic man

Tarja Aaltonen | pp. 49–66

Broken narratives, visual forces: Letters, paintings and the event

Maria Tamboukou | pp. 67–86

Artists-in-progress: Narrative Identity of the Self as Another

Linda Sandino | pp. 87–102

Breaking of self-narrative as a means of reorientation?

Vilma Hänninen and Anja Koski-Jännes | pp. 103–119

“There is no fear in my lexicon” vs. “You are not normal if you won’t be scared”: A qualitative semiotic analysis of the ‘broken’ discourse of Israeli bus drivers who experienced terror attacks

Alison Stern Perez, Yishai Tobin and Shifra Sagy | pp. 121–146

Beyond narrative: The shape of traumatic testimony

Molly Andrews | pp. 147–166

Afterword: ‘Even Amidst’: Rethinking Narrative Coherence

Mark Freeman | pp. 167–186

Index | pp. 191–196

List of contributors | pp. 187–189

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