Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Editors

Benedict Neurohr | University of Nottingham

Lizzie Stewart-Shaw | University of Nottingham

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.32

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. xiii–13

List of contributors | pp. vii–ix

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw | pp. 1–12

Part 1. Foundations of fictional worlds

Chapter 2. Immersion and emergence in children’s literature

Peter Stockwell | pp. 15–32

Chapter 3. A predictive coding approach to Text World Theory

Benedict Neurohr | pp. 33–52

Chapter 4. World-building as cognitive feedback loop

Ernestine Lahey | pp. 53–72

Part 2. Forming fictional worlds

Chapter 5. Experiencing horrible worlds

Lizzie Stewart-Shaw | pp. 75–95

Chapter 6. Framing the narrative: The “fictive publisher” as a bridge builder between intra- and extratextual world

Natalia Igl | pp. 97–117

Chapter 7. Constructing inferiority through comic characterisation: Self-deprecating humour and cringe comedy in High Fidelity and Bridget Jones’s Diary

Agnes 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 classroom

Marcello Giovanelli | pp. 177–198

Chapter 11. Sharing fiction: A text-world approach to storytime

Sarah Jackson | pp. 199–218

Chapter 12. Afterword

Joanna Gavins | pp. 219–223

Index | pp. 225–228

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