Memory and storytelling in Iain Banks’s “Use of weapons”

• Authors: Fetlińska Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to use cognitive approach in order to discuss the topic of memory in Iain Banks’s “Use of weapons.” I argue that Banks presents memory as a creative faculty of the human brain which is inherently connected with imagination, identity-shaping processes and narrative construction. In this essay, I analyse the workings of memory, as well as its social and cultural functions, as presented in “Use of weapons.”

Keywords

EN

Iain Banks; memory; narrative; cognitive studies; storytelling; neuroscience

• Publisher: Wydział Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Acta Philologica
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 49
• Pages: 283-294

Contributors

author

Fetlińska Katarzyna

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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