The present contribution seeks to open up a new approach to intermediality by addressing
its cognitive effects and functions. For this purpose it discusses current understandings of …

Analyses of intermediality in narrative fiction have mainly focused on the evocation of
images in the main body of the text. More recently, intermedial research has started to …

This article deals with the phenomenology of reading narrative fictions, in particular with the
production of mental imagery in the process of reading. Because readers differ in their …

There can be unity in diversity. Especially in such a heterogeneous field as the study of
narrativity, it is imperative to put the various partial aspects in relation, even though it might …

Based on a cognitive approach to genre as reading experience, this chapter argues that the
reader's role in making sense of short stories is different than in reading long narratives …

The title of this essay makes reference to Richard Gerrig's study Experiencing Narrative
Worlds (1993) and David Herman's chapter on “Narrative Ways of Worldmaking” in this …

If only because they are very often interested in interpretations that turn detailed formal
aspects into meaning, theorists of literary narrative have always considered their object of …

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY THINK BY MEANS OF CONCEPTS. Art, music, and painting
think by means of percepts. That is what we are told: logos and tekhnd, in the original Greek …

Many critics view the short story as a borderline genre, both marking and dissolving many
boundaries: between the oral and the literary, allegory and realism, internal and external …

The trend in narratological research over the last two decades has been to diversify into a
range of contextual narratologies, whilst at the same time consolidating the sense of …