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Experiencing Fictional Worlds
Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 32] 2019
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1.Introduction
Part 1.Foundations of fictional worlds
Chapter 2.Immersion and emergence in children’s literature
Chapter 3.A Predictive Coding approach to Text World Theory
Chapter 4.World-building as cognitive feedback loop
Part 2.Forming fictional worlds
Chapter 5.Building horrible worlds
Chapter 6.Framing the narrative: The “fictive publisher” as a bridge builder between intra- and extratextual world
Chapter 7.Constructing inferiority through comic characterisation: Self-deprecating humour and cringe comedy in High Fidelity and Bridget Jones’s Diary
Chapter 8.Cognitive grammar and reconstrual: Re-experiencing Margaret Atwood’s “The Freeze-Dried Groom”
Part 3.Fictional worlds in context
Chapter 9.Immersive reading and the unnatural text-worlds of “Dead Fish”
Chapter 10.Experiencing literature in the poetry classroom
Chapter 11.Sharing fiction: A text-world approach to storytime
Chapter 12.Afterword
Index


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