Stories and minds : cognitive approaches to literary narrative /
edited by Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 MindsPart 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.
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 analy.