Lars Bernaerts is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He teaches literary theory at the Free University of Brussels. Dirk De Geest is a professor of modern Dutch literature and literary theory at the KU Leuven. Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature at Ghent University. Together with Luc Herman, he is the author of Handbook of Narrative Analysis (Nebraska, 2005).
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Introduction: Cognitive Narrative Studies: Themes and Variations
Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck
Part 1. Minding the Reader
1. Minding the Text: Memory for Literary Narrative
Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon
2. Rhetorical Control of Readers' Attention: Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives on Foreground and Background in Narrative
Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, and Marc Alexander
3. Partial Views and the Promise of More: Minimal Cues and Narrative Understanding in Anna Karenina
Elaine Auyoung
Part 2. Experiencing Minds
4. Blind Reading: Toward an Enactivist Theory of the Reader's Imagination
Marco Caracciolo
5. The Words and Worlds of Literary Narrative: The Trade-off between Verbal Presence and Direct Presence in the Activity of Reading
Anežka Kuzmi ová
6. Cycles of Narrative Necessity: Suspect Tellers and the Textuality of Fictional Minds
Maria Mäkelä
Part 3. Minds and Cultures
7. Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
Roy Sommer
8. Plot, Morality, and Folk Psychology Research
Bart Keunen
Afterword: Narrative and Mind: Directions for Inquiry
David Herman
Contributors
Index
