Alison Gibbons

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alison Gibbons is involved.

Titles

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts.… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.

Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling

Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.

Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow 2021 Chapter 1. Responding to style Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods, Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Gibbons, Alison 2021 Chapter 6. “Why do you insist that Alana is not real?”: Visitors’ perceptions of the fictionality of Andi and Lance Olsen’s ‘there’s no place like time’ exhibition Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods, Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Chapter

Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara 2019 Real fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 245–267 | Article

Gibbons, Alison 2019 The “dissolving margins” of Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels: A cognitive approach to fictionality, authorial intentionality, and autofictional reading strategies Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 391–417 | Article

Using Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels as case study, this article presents a cognitive approach to fictionality and authorial intention using Text World Theory and Mind-Modelling. It investigates two forms of ontological distortion: readers’ (mis)classification of the novels’ genre (as… read more

Gibbons, Alison 2013 Multimodal metaphors in contemporary experimental literature Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 180–198 | Article

Multimodal metaphor studies has hitherto neglected one key arena in the creative arts: literature. This article explores four case studies of multimodal metaphor within contemporary experimental literature. In poetry, the metaphor EMOTIONS ARE OBJECTS is discussed within Anne Carson’s (2009)… read more