Making stories: law, literature, life

Jerome S. Bruner (1)

1 New York University School of Law

Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive human habit and suggests new and deeper ways to think about how we use stories to make sense of lives and the great moral and psychological problems that animate them. Looking at legal cases and autobiography as well as literature, Bruner warns us not to be seduced by overly tidy stories and shows how doubt and double meaning can lie beneath the most seemingly simple case. (http://books.google.fr/books?id=7p2ApsvrclcC&pg=PA123&dq=Bruner,+J.Making+Stories&hl=fr&ei=gOGXTtvhF9To8QPKquy9BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false)

Mots clés: narrative learning environments (NLE)

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Jerome S. Bruner. Making stories: law, literature, life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 130 p., 2003. ⟨hal-00692074⟩