This is probably not a book you would want to take to the seashore with you, although the
beach would provide the perfect setting in which to read it. As the author proclaims early on …

In daily life we are largely preoccupied with Close-ups. Only infrequently in our workaday
hours is there a clipping of practical interests which results in aesthetic detachment. Often …

Deconstruction is critiquing the hierarchical oppositions which comprise the basis of the
western ideology system; oppositions such as in/out, presence/absence. To deconstruct and …

The sociology of literature tends to address literary works as “reflections” or “mirrors” of
society. A more pragmatic approach allows us to reverse the perspective: how does …

This paper argues that literature is a social practical mode of production, as Marx argued.
Besides, the paper continues to demonstrate that the tools of literary production, namely …

This dissertation tracks the coevolution of narrative and social forms in the twentieth century
British and American novels, as their respective societies developed gradually more …

Narratology and cognitive sciences. On Lars Bernaerts, Dirk de Geest, Luc Herman, Bart
Vervaeck (Eds.), Stories and Minds: Cogni Page 1 151 Vol. 15, No. 1 (2014) IMAGE [&] …

A recent 'cognitive turn'in literary studies has been noted by many scholars, and cognitive
poetics is part of this movement. Cognitive poetics is a discipline in its infancy, as Stockwell …

Jarring Witnesses begins by surveying the problem of point of view as a formal, cognitive
and cultural determinant in narrative historiography, particularly in the way certain dominant …