The aim of a cognitive narratology, as I see it, is to develop the literary and generally
semiotic study of narratives through cognitive modeling, and to develop cognitive studies of …

How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a
mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real …

Current research on emotion has had only limited impact on narrative theory. By and large,
cognitive approaches to narrative have treated emotion as a subsidiary effect of the mental …

Worlds offers an updated take on narrative theory, explicitly accounting for the shift of focus
from traditional plot-based literary fiction to world-building in various media. Consequently …

Cognitive approaches have been widely hailed as “the next big thing” in the beleaguered
field of literary studies. But despite a widespread interest for what narrative means for the life …

My dissertation ventures into new areas of the humanities in several respects: first, it
analyses modes of storytelling which go beyond postmodernism s subversion and self …

Characters' consciousness is one of the central factors of every narrative. A narrative is
usually defined as a representation of a change of a state of affairs. Since the end of the …

Building on an unified approach to literary and the everyday, written and oral (or otherwise
performed) narrative, this chapter gets its bearings from a hermeneutic notion of narrative as …

This article establishes the theoretical bases for a more direct and detailed exploration of
fictional minds in cognitive stylistics. This discipline usually analyzes narrative discourse in …

This essay suggests that separating emotionally immersed and reflectively rational ways of
experiencing fiction on the basis of ontological structures and spatio-temporal metaphors is …