David Herman. Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind. Cam- bridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013 [Book review]

David Herman’s argument in Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind shifts across an array of conceptualisations as to how narrative and storytelling come to be implicated within the world. His investigation, as he suggests in his preface, centres on “two key questions: How do stories across media interlock with interpreters’ mental capacities and dispositions, thus giving rise to narrative experiences? And how (to what extent, in what specific ways) does narrative scaffold efforts to make sense of experience itself?” (ix) His work is structured across three main points of focus (the three parts of his text) to interrogate narrative as representing intentionality, and as both a target for interpretation and a vehicle for making meaning in the world. Insightful and detailed, particularly in terms of the depth of research it responds to, Herman’s work offers challenging new positions for consideration across both literary studies and the sciences of the mind. But the greatest contribution made by this text is the manner in which it both exemplifies and argues for a new cross-disciplinarity in academic research.