Culture and Storytelling in Literature

IF 0.9 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI:10.1075/ni.21093.wan
Qi Wang, Jenny Chun-I Yang
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The present study compared ways of storytelling in Western and Asian literature. Content analysis was performed on Amazon.com and New York Times best-selling fictions and memoirs (N = 102) by Western and Asian authors. Although authors of the two cultural groups described similar numbers of event episodes per chapter, Western authors depicted the episodes in greater detail than Asian authors in both fictions and memoirs. Asian authors, on the other hand, described more frequently repeated events than Western authors in fictions. These findings highlight the important role of literature in reflecting as well as perpetuating cultural ways of storytelling.
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本研究比较了西方和亚洲文学的叙事方式。对西方和亚洲作家的亚马逊网站和《纽约时报》畅销小说和回忆录(N = 102)进行了内容分析。尽管这两个文化群体的作者每一章描述的事件情节数量相似,但无论是在小说还是回忆录中,西方作者都比亚洲作者更详细地描述了这些事件。另一方面,亚洲作家在小说中比西方作家更频繁地描述重复事件。这些发现突出了文学在反映和延续讲故事的文化方式方面的重要作用。
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Narrative Inquiry
Narrative Inquiry Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.
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