Stories and minds : cognitive approaches to literary narrative / edited by Lars Bernaerts ...[et. al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernaerts, Lars, 1980-

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science--Philosophy.

Cognitive science.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in "Stories and Minds," a collection of essays that discusses cutting-edge research in the field of cognitive narrative studies. Recent findings in the philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, among other disciplines, are integrated in fresh theoretical perspectives and illustrated with accompanying analyses of literary fiction. Pursuing such topics as narrative gaps, mental simulation in reading, theory of mind, and folk psychology, these essays address fundamental questions about the role of cognitive processes in literary narratives and in narrative comprehension. Stories and Minds reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. Minding the Reader""; ""1 Minding the Text: Memory for Literary Narrative""; ""2 Rhetorical Control of Readers� Attention:Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives on Foreground and Background in Narrative""; ""3 Partial Cues and Narrative Understanding in Anna Karenina""; ""Part 2. Experiencing Minds ""; ""4 Blind Reading: Toward an Enactivist Theory of the Reader�s Imagination ""

""5 Th e Words and Worlds of Literary Narrative:Th e Trade-off between Verbal Presence andDirect Presence in the Activity of Reading""""6 Cycles of Narrative Necessity: Suspect Tellers and the Textuality of Fictional Minds""; ""Part 3. Minds and Cultures""; ""7 Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative""; ""8 Plot, Morality, and Folk Psychology Research""; ""Afterword ""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496211507

1496211502

9780803246423

0803246420