This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and
translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive combination of traditional close …

It is often argued that narratives improve social cognition, either by appealing to social-
cognitive abilities as we engage with the story world and its characters, or by conveying …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …

A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity.
Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories …

What are the dominant theories and models for the reading of literature? What gaps or
problems exist for our knowledge, especially with regard to second or foreign language …

Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides an
introduction to the subject, an overview of the history of the topic, an analysis of the main …

Version 2.2: More pointers to recent research, some new graphics (conceptual blending in
Room at the Top, 3.2. 26.2, Lanser's homodiegesis scale, 3.3. 3, discourse time vs story time …