Introduction -1 1.1.1 Foreword -1 1.1.2 Structure of the volume -2 1.2 Narrative engagement -3 1.3 Blending theory -9 1.3.1 Why blending-9 1.3.2 Basic blending networks-12 1.3.3 Vital relations and compression -15 1.3.4 Constitutive and governing principles for blending-16 1.3.5 Objections to blending theory -17 1.4 The role of storyworld possible selves -19 1.4.1 A description of the model -19 1.4.2 SPSs and narrative engagement-23 1.5 Interacting with narratives -27 1.5.1 Engagement pre requisites -27 1.
This study empirically investigates reader responses to the one-page graphic narrative ‘City’ within the theoretical framework of storyworld possible selves. These are blended structures resulting from the conceptual integration of two input spaces: the mental representation that readers construct for the narrator or character that perspectivizes a narrative, and the mental representation that readers entertain for themselves, or self-concept. In our study, we use a questionnaire to elicit information about the internal organization of storyworld possible selves blends in 15 real readers, and we discuss the bearing of both collectively shared and idiosyncratic storyworld possible self blends on character construction, emotional response, and narrative construal.
This study investigates linguistic differences between two fictional narrative texts—one a revision of the other—by Thomas Pynchon. New syntactic and lexical choices made by Pynchon when rewriting his early short story “Under the Rose” as chapter 3 in the novel V. are analyzed in the light of the changes they bring about in the transitivity of the clause and consequently in the reader's conceptualizing of the fictional world, especially the characters. The analysis is grounded on cognitive theories of information processing, and on the assumption that language form is not fortuitous, but performs a communicative function.
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