TY - BOOK AU - Currie,Gregory TI - Narratives and narrators: a philosophy of stories SN - 9780191712432 (ebook) : AV - P302 U1 - 401.41 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Literature KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Reflecting on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication, this book shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories. Currie argues that human tendencies to imitation and joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, discussing irony, authorship, and character UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282609.001.0001 ER -