The present study compared ways of storytelling in Western and Asian literature. Content analysis was performed on Amazon.com and New York Times best-selling fictions and memoirs (N = 102) by Western and Asian authors. Although authors of the two cultural groups described similar numbers of event episodes per chapter, Western authors depicted the episodes in greater detail than Asian authors in both fictions and memoirs. Asian authors, on the other hand, described more frequently repeated events than Western authors in fictions. These findings highlight the important role of literature in reflecting as well as perpetuating cultural ways of storytelling.

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文学中的文化和讲故事

本研究比较了西方和亚洲文学中的讲故事方式。对 Amazon.com 和纽约时报畅销小说和回忆录 (N = 102) 的西方和亚洲作家进行了内容分析。尽管这两个文化群体的作者每章描述的事件情节数量相似，但西方作家在小说和回忆录中比亚洲作家更详细地描述了事件情节。另一方面，亚洲作家在小说中比西方作家更频繁地描述重复事件。这些发现突出了文学在反映和延续讲故事的文化方式方面的重要作用。