Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the
essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning'and concluding with 'The End' …

Attribution of mental states is fundamental to our engagement with fiction. Crucially, its social
content depends on mental states recursively “embedded” within each other; for instance …

This descriptive study aimed to examine entrepreneurship's and intrapreneurship's roles in
translating innovation intention into performance by examining Australian businesses. The …

Stories, in pictorial format, orally narrated, and later on as narrative texts, have played a key
role in human evolution and to this day continue to surreptitiously teach us things and skills …

Pocket cartoons are a regular feature of most contemporary newspapers and magazines. As
such, they represent a way of conveying complex social and political commentary in a …

The representation of non-standard and regional accent and dialect in literary fiction has
been framed mainly sociolinguistically and treated as an index of authenticity, within an …

Research findings in cognitive literary studies show that lifetime exposure to literary versus
popular fiction has a differential association with social cognition processes such as …

Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its
function, or why and when it evolved. I summarise experimental evidence that the primary …

Storytelling played a crucial role in human evolution. To this day, through stories humans
gain declarative and procedural knowledge, and learn the skills that support learning itself …

Formalist critics warned particularly about the misleading interpretations that could result
from investing too much authority in readers' emotional responses. William Wimsatt Jr. and …