SAH Commons | Emma-Louise Silva | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/emmalouisesilva/activity/ Activity feed for Emma-Louise Silva. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:18:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 082a305aab1f134bb534a8eba517b0ad Emma-Louise Silva's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1933604/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:37:08 -0500 0 32fec4e726b030f13ced53e3e99149b7 Emma-Louise Silva changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1933602/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:30:17 -0500 0 71033af70dfdf2dd4dcf223323f09ddc Emma-Louise Silva deposited What's age got to do with it? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789037/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:11:15 -0400 Age is a complex phenomenon. Think about the following questions for a moment: How old are you? And how old do you feel? How old do other people think you are? And how do you and others know these things?

Some of those insights may hearken back to the books you read as a young person, as they played a part in shaping your identity. So how is…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed35cc919f12fa0191b2af5a2e2288ff Emma-Louise Silva deposited Cognitive Narratology and the 4Es: Memorial Fabulation in David Almond's My Name is Mina https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789036/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:00:05 -0400 This essay demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a lens based on 4E-inspired cognitive narratology to David Almond’s My Name is Mina (2010) in order to illuminate how the so-called cognitive-affective imbalance between children and adults needs reassessing, especially when it comes to memory. Merging recent developments in 4E – or emb…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb17333a433dedd5864c8c31cd0a75ca Emma-Louise Silva deposited Continuity-in-Change in David Almond’s The Savage: Narrative Self-Shaping in Moments of Metanarrative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783992/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:37:47 -0400 David Almond’s The Savage (2008), illustrated by Dave McKean, demonstrates how narrating enables the adolescent protagonist, Blue Baker, to explore themes of loss, grief and bullying in the embedded graphic narrative he creates about a savage boy, a story Blue calls ‘The Savage’. The primary narrative focuses on the interplay between Blue’…[Read more]

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