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Narrative has been the subject of theoretical reflection and empirical investigation since Aristotle’s Poetics. However, with the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing a real narrative turn in the humanities and social sciences. This volume aims to provide an overview of recent developments in the theoretical analysis of narrative, offering the reader a series of contributions that are organized along the following three theoretical-disciplinary axes: theories of narrative at the intersection of cognitive, evolutionary, and computational approaches; narrative theory and cognitive neuroscience; and narrative and storytelling as socio-communicative phenomena.

The new forms of social communication, with the increasing presence of images within the text, make us necessary to reconsider the cerebral basis of literacy and theyr reconfiguration via neural recycling. In the theoretical framework of Embodied philosophy of mind, we propose an analysis of the ‘extended writing”, actually using emoticon and emoji, in the light of our contemporary neuropsychological knowledge (hemispheric specialization and the functional circuit of literacy).

Narrative has been a subject of theoretical reflection and empirical investigation since Aristotle's Poetics. The past century has seen a growing interest in it, from an increasingly interdisciplinary perspective, leading to a truly "narrative turn" in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of this volume is to provide an overview of this vast scholarly production, focusing in particular on: theories of narrative at the intersection of cognitive, evolutionary and computational approaches; narrative and cognitive neuroscience; and narrative and storytelling as socio-communicative phenomena.