Narrative Absorption
Editors
| Utrecht University
| Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
| University of Amsterdam
| Utrecht University
| University of Amsterdam
Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor do we fully realize how we might have changed as we return for the fictional worlds we have visited. The feeling of being absorbed is one of the most illusive and transient feelings, but also one that motivates audiences to spend considerable amounts of time in narrative worlds, and one that is central to our understanding of the effects of narratives on beliefs and behavior. Key specialists inform the reader of this book about the nature of the peculiar state of consciousness during episodes of absorption, the perception of absorption in history, the role of absorption in meaningful experiences with narratives, the relation with related phenomena such as suspense and identification, issues of measurement, and the practical implications, for instance in education-entertainment.
Various fields have worked separately on topics of absorption, albeit using different terminology and methods, but having reached a high level of development and complexity in understanding absorption. Now is the time to bring them together. This volume will be a point of reference for years to come.
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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ix
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1–7
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Part I. Conceptualization of narrative absorption
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11–153
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11–27
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29–47
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49–67
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69–96
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97–118
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119–131
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133–153
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Part II. Empirical studies on narrative absorption
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158–249
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157–175
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177–197
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199–215
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217–249
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Part III. Outcomes of narrative absorption
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254–313
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253–269
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271–292
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293–313
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Index
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315–319
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“Taken together, Narrative Absorption succeeds in providing conceptual and empirical foundations for theories of absorbing narrative experiences across media and contexts. The strengths of this volume lie clearly in the close collaboration among scholars from different academic backgrounds. So far, literary scholars have frequently been criticized for appropriating scientific models for perhaps unintended uses and seeming unaware of important epistemological devices (Jackson, 2003; Ryan, 2010). The current volume, however, goes beyond metaphorical forms of appropriation of scientific theories through a coherent view of interdisciplinary relations and hands-on engagement with cognitive science itself. It presents an extensive body of research that has studied the different facets of absorbed experiences in the ways they come about and how they may affect the recipients.”
Carina Rasse, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, in Scientific Study of Literature 7:2 (2017)
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Erratum
The volume editors have requested us to add the following rectification to chapter 5.
Subjects
Communication Studies
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics