Chapter published in:
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methodsEdited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 43–60
Chapter 3
Modelling an unethical mind
Jessica Norledge | University of Nottingham
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: The dystopian imagination
- 2.Reading dystopian minds
- 2.1Text World Theory and mind-modelling
- 3.The refracted text-worlds of Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad”
- 4. Mind-modelling the narrator
- 5.Conclusion: Projecting and resisting text-world ethics
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Acknowledgements -
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Published online: 08 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.03nor
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.03nor
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