Alison Gibbons

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison Gibbons plays a role.

Titles

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling

Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies
Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow 2021 Chapter 1. Responding to styleStyle and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods, Bell, Alice, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara 2019 Real fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytellingReal Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 245–267 | Article
Using Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels as case study, this article presents a cognitive approach to fictionality and authorial intention using Text World Theory and Mind-Modelling. It investigates two forms of ontological distortion: readers’ (mis)classification of the novels’ genre (as… read more
Gibbons, Alison 2013 Multimodal metaphors in contemporary experimental literatureMetaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 180–198 | Article
Multimodal metaphor studies has hitherto neglected one key arena in the creative arts: literature. This article explores four case studies of multimodal metaphor within contemporary experimental literature. In poetry, the metaphor EMOTIONS ARE OBJECTS is discussed within Anne Carson’s (2009)… read more