What are emotions? How do we recognize them in ourselves and in others? How do we communicate them? In this book, Christiane Voss develops a theory of "narrative emotions": The physical and mental components of emotional reactions always have to be based on a common structure, so that they can be experienced as an entity. The author provocantly points out, that emotion is the notice of such a narrative structure, which can be linguistically expressed in tales. Voss provides both a historical and systematic introduction to this field.