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Experiencing Fictional Worlds
Editors
Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is fruitfully applied to a wide variety of text types, from poetry to genre-specific prose to children’s story-books.
This book investigates how fictional worlds are built and updated, how context affects the conceptualisation of text-worlds, and how emotions are elicited in these processes. The diverse analyses of this volume apply and develop approaches such as Text World Theory, reader-response studies, and pedagogical stylistics, among other broader cognitive and linguistic frameworks. Experiencing Fictional Worlds aligns with other cutting-edge research on language conceptualisation in fields including cognitive linguistics, stylistics, narratology, and literary criticism. This volume will be relevant to anyone with interests in language and literature.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 February 2019
Published online on 1 February 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. xiii–13
- List of contributors | pp. vii–ix
- Preface | pp. xi–11
- Chapter 1. IntroductionBenedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw | pp. 1–12
- Part 1. Foundations of fictional worlds
- Chapter 2. Immersion and emergence in children’s literaturePeter Stockwell | pp. 15–32
- Chapter 3. A predictive coding approach to Text World TheoryBenedict Neurohr | pp. 33–52
- Chapter 4. World-building as cognitive feedback loopErnestine Lahey | pp. 53–72
- Part 2. Forming fictional worlds
- Chapter 5. Experiencing horrible worldsLizzie Stewart-Shaw | pp. 75–95
- Chapter 6. Framing the narrative: The “fictive publisher” as a bridge builder between intra- and extratextual worldNatalia Igl | pp. 97–117
- Chapter 7. Constructing inferiority through comic characterisation: Self-deprecating humour and cringe comedy in High Fidelity and Bridget Jones’s DiaryAgnes Marszalek | pp. 119–134
- Chapter 8. Cognitive grammar and reconstrual: Re-experiencing Margaret Atwood’s “The Freeze-Dried Groom”Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall | pp. 135–154
- Part 3. Fictional worlds in context
- Chapter 9. Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of “Dead Fish”Jessica Norledge | pp. 157–176
- Chapter 10. Experiencing literature in the poetry classroomMarcello Giovanelli | pp. 177–198
- Chapter 11. Sharing fiction: A text-world approach to storytimeSarah Jackson | pp. 199–218
- Chapter 12. AfterwordJoanna Gavins | pp. 219–223
- Index | pp. 225–228
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