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1 online resource (ix, 228 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Linguistic approaches to literature (LAL),
1569-3112 ;
volume 32
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Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 32.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction / Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw. Part 1: Foundations of fictional worlds. Chapter 2: Immersion and emergence in children's literature / Peter Stockwell -- Chapter 3: A predictive coding approach to text world theory / Benedict Neurohr -- World-building as cognitive feedback loop / Ernestine Lahey -- Part 2: Forming fictional worlds. Experiencing horrible worlds / Lizzie Stewart-Shaw -- Framing the narrative: the "fictive publisher" as a bridge builder between intra- and extratextual world / Natalia Igl -- Constructing inferiority through comic characterisation: self-deprecating humour and cringe comedy in High Fidelity and Bridget Jones's Diary / Agnes Marszalek -- Cognitive grammar and reconstrual: re-experiencing Margaret Atwood's "The freeze-dried groom" / Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall -- Part 3: Fictional worlds in context. Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of "Dead fish" / Jessica Norledge -- Experiencing literature in the poetry classroom / Marcello Giovanelli -- Sharing fiction: a text-world approach to storytime / Sarah Jackson. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature. |
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Imaginary places in literature.
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Imaginary places in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Neurohr, Benedict, editor.
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Stewart-Shaw, Lizzie, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Experiencing fictional worlds. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027202017 (DLC) 2018045332 |
| ISBN |
9027263035 |
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9789027263032 (electronic book) |
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9789027202017 (hardcover) |
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