Author : Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027263032
Experiencing Fictional Worlds by Benedict Neurohr,Lizzie Stewart-Shaw Pdf
Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is fruitfully applied to a wide variety of text types, from poetry to genre-specific prose to children’s story-books. This book investigates how fictional worlds are built and updated, how context affects the conceptualisation of text-worlds, and how emotions are elicited in these processes. The diverse analyses of this volume apply and develop approaches such as Text World Theory, reader-response studies, and pedagogical stylistics, among other broader cognitive and linguistic frameworks. Experiencing Fictional Worlds aligns with other cutting-edge research on language conceptualisation in fields including cognitive linguistics, stylistics, narratology, and literary criticism. This volume will be relevant to anyone with interests in language and literature.