Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Editors

Benedict Neurohr

| University of Nottingham

Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

| University of Nottingham

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027202017 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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ISBN 9789027263032 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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

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

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw	1–12
Part 1. Foundations of fictional worlds
Chapter 2. Immersion and emergence in children’s literature Peter Stockwell	15–32
Chapter 3. A predictive coding approach to Text World Theory Benedict Neurohr	33–52
Chapter 4. World-building as cognitive feedback loop Ernestine Lahey	53–72
Part 2. Forming fictional worlds
Chapter 5. Experiencing horrible worlds Lizzie Stewart-Shaw	75–95
Chapter 6. Framing the narrative: The “fictive publisher” as a bridge builder between intra- and extratextual world Natalia Igl	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	119–134
Chapter 8. Cognitive grammar and reconstrual: Re-experiencing Margaret Atwood’s “The Freeze-Dried Groom” Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall	135–154
Part 3. Fictional worlds in context
Chapter 9. Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of “Dead Fish” Jessica Norledge	157–175
Chapter 10. Experiencing literature in the poetry classroom Marcello Giovanelli	177–197
Chapter 11. Sharing fiction: A text-world approach to storytime Sarah Jackson	199–217
Chapter 12. Afterword Joanna Gavins	219–223
Subject index	225–228

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Cushing, Ian

2019. A textured and sensory grammar for the experience of reading. English in Education ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Writing and literacy

Cognition and language

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

BIC Subject: DSA – Literary theory

BISAC Subject: LIT006000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2018045332