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Stories and Minds : Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative

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 Min...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bernaerts, Lars, 1980-
Otros Autores: De Geest, Dirk, Vervaeck, Bart, Herman, Luc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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