 | 1990 - 572 pages
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 | Martin Price - 1983 - 400 pages
..."therapeutic" function of the novel. Mink makes a similar point about the relation of narrative to life. "Life has no beginnings, middles or ends; there are...are partings, but final partings only in the story" (p. 557). The shaping of experience frees it of immediacy as it is given form; we move from immersion... | |
 | Anthony Paul Kerby - 1991 - 160 pages
...There have been varying views on this topic. On one extreme is the influential position of Louis Mink: “Stories are not lived but told. Life has no beginnings, middles, or ends... ¿“20 Thus if life has any narrative structure, claims Mink, it is one we have put there after the... | |
 | Mark W. G. Stibbe - 1994 - 234 pages
...These stories are, however, imposed on the past; they are not discovered within it. As Mink puts it, 'Stories are not lived but told. Life has no beginnings, middles or ends... We do not dream or remember in narrative, I think, but tell stories which weave together the separate... | |
 | Brian Fay - 1996 - 278 pages
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 | David McCooey - 1996 - 250 pages
...Louis Mink, who has much to write on the configured nature of experience, nevertheless writes that 'Stories are not lived but told. Life has no beginnings, middles, or ends ... Narrative qualities are transferred from art to life.' 1 * This presents a picture of experience... | |
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stories are not lived but told. Life has no beginnings, middles, or ends; there are meetings, but the start of an affair belongs to the story we tell ourselves later, and there are partings, but final partings only in the story. There are hopes, plans,... 
