ICSM Science of Fiction: Evolution, Cognitive Science, and Stories
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects
Narrative therapy
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects
Storytelling
Storytelling--Psychological aspects
Storytelling ability in children
Cognitive science
Evolutionary psychology
Neurosciences
Neurosciences and the arts
Neurosciences--Philosophy
Cognitive grammar
Psycholinguistics
Psychology and literature
Authorship--Psychological aspects
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects
Creative ability--Psychological aspects
Fiction--Authorship
Fiction--Psychological aspects
Literature and science
Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects
Narrative therapy
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects
Storytelling
Storytelling--Psychological aspects
Storytelling ability in children
Cognitive science
Evolutionary psychology
Neurosciences
Neurosciences and the arts
Neurosciences--Philosophy
Cognitive grammar
Psycholinguistics
Psychology and literature
Authorship--Psychological aspects
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects
Creative ability--Psychological aspects
Fiction--Authorship
Fiction--Psychological aspects
Literature and science
Note: Journals that might be of special interest and which are accessible full text from IC databases:
General OneFile :
The most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better). Subject headings include Storytelling, Narration, Fiction, Authorship, Evolutionary Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology.
If there is a good subject heading for your topic here, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searches produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Analysis," "History," "Methods," "Psychological aspects," and "Social aspects," to name only a few.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing onlythe "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) at the right.
Academic Search Premier & SocINDEX with Full Text :
Both offer comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved. Among the Subjects available here: Storytelling, Narration (Rhetoric), Narrative Discourse Analysis, Narrative Paradigm Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science, Literature & Cognitive Science, and Fiction--Authorship.
ProQuest Research Library :
Another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word. Among the Subjects available here are Storytelling, Narratives, and Cognitive Psychology.
Look at the articles in “Scholarly Journals” (under "Source Type" on the right of results lists) for the most substantial research.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
JSTOR :
You'll find a great deal of information on folklore and anthropology, as well as literary criticism and a fair amount of film and television criticism in this 100% full-text database of scholarly literature. JSTOR offers only Keyword search of its full text, so put full names and Keyword phrases in quotation marks. And
User Advisory: Be sure to check the "Article" limit below the search slots to weed out book reviews. And note that most JSTOR full text begins at least 1-2 years before the present--so this is not the best resource for the "latest" on your topic . On the other hand, JSTOR's archives extend back into the 19th century, so you can find esays from the first half of the twentieth century.
Project Muse ,
Although a smaller database, Project Muse complements JSTOR. LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 10-15 years. Muse offers a basic keyword search (be sure to put the titles of literary works in quotation marks). Once you've retrieved a set of articles you can sort them into broad categories using the Research Area options on the left.
Note: Checking the "Articles" box under Content Type before you run a search will eliminate reviews of books about your topic and leave you with just the articles on your topic.
MLA International Bibliography :
MLAIB provides the most complete and fully indexed coverage of articles and books on modern literatures, linguistics, folklore, rhetoric, and composition from 1925 to the present. There is ample full text provided by ProQuest, as well as links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. Full text from other IC databases is also readily available via the "GetIt" links below article citations.
Because books, book chapters/essays, and dissertations will usually not be available full text, you may wish to limit your search to "Journal article" under "Source type."
"Author's Work" and "Author as Subject" will be especially helpful search fields at finding literary criticism. And for additional search field options either click on "Show more fields," or, for the complete list, open the drop-down menus to the right of the "Anywhere" default for the top three rows of search slots. This list includes both "Literary Influence"--who influenced a particular author you have entered--and "Literary Source"--who was influenced by that particular author.
PsycINFO :
The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" below the search slots is a good idea. If you find an article on exactly what you want, be sure to check the assigned "Descriptors" on the right of the citation for more ideas about useful search terms. Among the Discriptors available here: Storytelling, Narratives, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Neurolinguistics.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journal articles" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes below the search slots ("journal articles" is a menu choice under "Document Type").
ScienceDirect :
Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, click the “Related Articles” link to the right of the full text. This will open a range of articles on the same topic.
Note: Because this is Keyword searching, you will sometimes need to use truncation. The truncation symbol here is the exclamation point: ! So, for example, "narrat!" will retrieve narrative, narratives, and narration.
Also note: The default date range is 10 years, but you can choose any date range you wish.
Also also note: it's a good idea to uncheck the "Books" box below the search slots. IC does not subscribe to the full text books, so you probably don't want them cluttering your results.
- Narrative: 2002-present available full text from Project Muse database
- Journal of Narrative Theory: 1999-present available full text from Project Muse database
- Storytelling, Self, Society: Three full text issues available from Proquest Research database
General OneFile :
The most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better). Subject headings include Storytelling, Narration, Fiction, Authorship, Evolutionary Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology.
If there is a good subject heading for your topic here, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searches produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Analysis," "History," "Methods," "Psychological aspects," and "Social aspects," to name only a few.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing onlythe "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) at the right.
Academic Search Premier & SocINDEX with Full Text :
Both offer comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved. Among the Subjects available here: Storytelling, Narration (Rhetoric), Narrative Discourse Analysis, Narrative Paradigm Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science, Literature & Cognitive Science, and Fiction--Authorship.
A good initial strategy in this database is to search a likely topic in the Subject Terms and when you find it “explode” the term by double clicking it--this brings up a list of related Subject terms. You can check as many terms as you like before "adding" them to your search by AND-ing or OR-ing them together.
User Advisory: For any retrieved set of articles, there will be a box displayed on the left that will limit the articles to “Scholarly” journals—just check the box and click the “Update Results” button below.
ProQuest Research Library :
Another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word. Among the Subjects available here are Storytelling, Narratives, and Cognitive Psychology.
Look at the articles in “Scholarly Journals” (under "Source Type" on the right of results lists) for the most substantial research.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
JSTOR :
You'll find a great deal of information on folklore and anthropology, as well as literary criticism and a fair amount of film and television criticism in this 100% full-text database of scholarly literature. JSTOR offers only Keyword search of its full text, so put full names and Keyword phrases in quotation marks. And
User Advisory: Be sure to check the "Article" limit below the search slots to weed out book reviews. And note that most JSTOR full text begins at least 1-2 years before the present--so this is not the best resource for the "latest" on your topic . On the other hand, JSTOR's archives extend back into the 19th century, so you can find esays from the first half of the twentieth century.
Project Muse ,
Although a smaller database, Project Muse complements JSTOR. LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 10-15 years. Muse offers a basic keyword search (be sure to put the titles of literary works in quotation marks). Once you've retrieved a set of articles you can sort them into broad categories using the Research Area options on the left.
Note: Checking the "Articles" box under Content Type before you run a search will eliminate reviews of books about your topic and leave you with just the articles on your topic.
MLA International Bibliography :
MLAIB provides the most complete and fully indexed coverage of articles and books on modern literatures, linguistics, folklore, rhetoric, and composition from 1925 to the present. There is ample full text provided by ProQuest, as well as links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. Full text from other IC databases is also readily available via the "GetIt" links below article citations.
Because books, book chapters/essays, and dissertations will usually not be available full text, you may wish to limit your search to "Journal article" under "Source type."
"Author's Work" and "Author as Subject" will be especially helpful search fields at finding literary criticism. And for additional search field options either click on "Show more fields," or, for the complete list, open the drop-down menus to the right of the "Anywhere" default for the top three rows of search slots. This list includes both "Literary Influence"--who influenced a particular author you have entered--and "Literary Source"--who was influenced by that particular author.
PsycINFO :
The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" below the search slots is a good idea. If you find an article on exactly what you want, be sure to check the assigned "Descriptors" on the right of the citation for more ideas about useful search terms. Among the Discriptors available here: Storytelling, Narratives, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Neurolinguistics.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journal articles" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes below the search slots ("journal articles" is a menu choice under "Document Type").
ScienceDirect :
Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, click the “Related Articles” link to the right of the full text. This will open a range of articles on the same topic.
Note: Because this is Keyword searching, you will sometimes need to use truncation. The truncation symbol here is the exclamation point: ! So, for example, "narrat!" will retrieve narrative, narratives, and narration.
Also note: The default date range is 10 years, but you can choose any date range you wish.
Also also note: it's a good idea to uncheck the "Books" box below the search slots. IC does not subscribe to the full text books, so you probably don't want them cluttering your results.
Few databases offer 100% full text. Most retrieve a mix of full text articles and article "citations"--article title, author(s), publication info, and usually an "abstract" or one-prargraph summary of the content. When a citation makes you want the full text, look below it for this icon:
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
- "GETIT" will usually find the full text in another database and open it in a new window.
- If none of our databases can access the full text but we have a print subsciption to the journal, "GETIT" will retrieve the Library catalog record for the journal so that you can see if the date of the article falls within the date range we have on hand.
- If full text is not available from any database or from a print subsciption, "GETIT" will provide a link to the IC Library's Interlibrary Loan. Log in (same as your IC e-mail)--and set up your account if you've never used it before. "GETIT" will have populated the article request form with all the necessary information and you simply submit the request elecrtonically. Most articles are supplied as digital files and will be sent to you via e-mail when they arrive.
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- Storytelling Animal : How Stories Make Us Human
- On the Origin of Stories : Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
- Homo Narrans : The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
- Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
- Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
- Narrative and Consciousness : Literature, Psychology and the Brain
- Narratives and Narrators : A Philosophy of Stories
- Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
- Life History and Narrative
- Narrative and Identity : Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
- Narrative Intelligence.
- Life Stories : The Creation of Coherence
- Beyond Narrative Coherence
- Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity : Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Transforming Tales: How Stories Can Change People
- Storytelling in Daily Life : Performing Narrative
- Nature of the Soul : The Soul as Narrative
- Basic Elements of Narrative
- Theory of Narrative
- Narrative - State of the Art
- Telling Stories : A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction
- Story and Situation : Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction
- Narrative and Genre
- Classical Plot & the Invention of Western Narrative
- Frontiers of Narrative : Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories
- Modernism, Narrative and Humanism
- Narrative After Deconstruction
- Narrative Revisited : Telling a Story in the Age of New Media
- Narratologia : Current Trends in Narratology
- Narratologia : Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research
- Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life
- Narrative As Communication
- Sociolinguistics of Narrative
- Storytelling in a Liminal Time
- Politics of Storytelling : Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity
- Stories of Change : Narrative and Social Movements
- Considering Counter-Narratives : Narrating, Resisting, Making Sense
- It Was Like a Fever : Storytelling in Protest and Politics
- Narrative in Culture : Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy and Literature
- Narrative, Religion, and Science : Fundamentalism Versus Irony, 1700-1999
- Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy : Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World
- Stanford Storytelling Project: "an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories." Mainly useful for the audio archive of "Shows," the Blog, and the Press section.
- International Society for the Study of Narrative: This Georgetown University group publishes the journal Narrative (see under Recommended Databases on left). The site contents are quite sketchy, but there are nuggets of information in the Narrative Wiki, and the Links page provides a list of other organizations concerend with narrative studies.
- Living handbook of Narratology: Contents: An open access and continuously updated resource of essays hosted by Hamburg University. I've linked to the Table of Contents.
- Narrative Jurisprudence: A law resource, but with a wide range of articles on the nature and appeal of storytelling.
- "Is Storytelling a Biological Adaptation? Preliminary thoughts on how to pose that question." From Telling Stories: Literature and Evolution 2012.
- "Storytelling, behavior planning, and language evolution in context" (2014). From Frontiers, an open access scholarly publisher.
- "The Literary Darwinists: The Evolutionary Origins of Storytelling." Article from the Big Think Web site.
- "The anthropology of storytelling and the storytelling of anthropology" (2014). From the Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology.
- "The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling." From The Atlantic, 2014.
- "The Science Of Storytelling." From Forbes, 2012.
- "Narrative Discourse and Identities" from Narratology Beyond Literary Criticism (2004)..
- "Introduction" from New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (2011).
- "The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics" From The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2013).
MLA is the citation style used by most disciplines in the Humanities. The guides below use the latest 2008/9 standards.
