Matti Hyvärinen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Matti Hyvärinen is involved.

Journal

Narrative Inquiry

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935

Titles

The Travelling Concepts of Narrative

Edited by Mari Hatavara, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 18] 2013. vi, 311 pp.

Beyond Narrative Coherence

Edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.

Hatavara, Mari, Kirsi Sandberg, Mykola Andrushchenko, Sari Hälikkö, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Timo Nummenmaa, Jaakko Peltonen and Matti Hyvärinen 2024 Computational recognition of narratives: Applying narratological definitions to the analysis of political language use Applied Narratology, Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska (eds.), pp. 335–363 | Article

Computational recognition of narratives, if successful, would find innumerable applications with large digitized datasets. Systematic identification of narratives in the text flow could significantly contribute to such pivotal questions as where, when, and how narratives are employed. This paper… read more

Hyvärinen, Matti, Mari Hatavara and Hanna Rautajoki 2021 Positioning with master and counter-narratives Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed, McCabe, Allyssa and Dorien Van De Mieroop (eds.), pp. 97–125 | Article

Narrative studies have witnessed a growing interest towards positioning analyses and the analysis of master and counter-narratives. While the former tends to prefer a small story approach and to draw on Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis, the latter engages in a variety of… read more

Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen 2013 Introduction, or another story of narrative The Travelling Concepts of Narrative, Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Hyvärinen, Matti 2013 Travelling metaphors, transforming concepts The Travelling Concepts of Narrative, Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen (eds.), pp. 13–42 | Article

This volume discusses the travelling concepts of narrative. But what do we understand by “travelling concepts”? I address this issue by reading Mieke Bal, who originally suggested the term, and by scrutinizing the metaphor of travel itself. Do we assume that the concept of narrative has remained… read more

Hyvärinen, Matti, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou 2010 Beyond narrative coherence: An introduction Beyond Narrative Coherence, Hyvärinen, Matti, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article

The introduction suggests a paradigmatic turn in narrative studies as regards the coherence thesis. The classical, Aristotelian, notion has been widely shared among scholars who otherwise often disagree, often drastically, from folklore and linguistics to philosophy, psychology and narrativist… read more