Narrative Comprehension and Film

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1 NARRATIVE SCHEMA

1  C.G. Prado argues that narrative may be found at the very threshold of perception where consciousness itself begins. Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), pp. 15, 115–38, 150–3. On narrative as a fundamental mode of thought see, e.g., Narrative Psychology: The Storied Nature of Human Conduct, ed. by Theodore R. Sarbin (New York: Praeger, 1986); Brian Wicker, The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme (London: Athlone Press, 1975).

2  See, e.g., James Boyd White, Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), chap. 8, “Telling Stories in the Law and in Ordinary Life,” ...