Psychonarratology Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response [Hardcover]

This book provides a broad, integrative framework for pursuing research in the field of psychonarratology.The field of psychonarratology represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between, on one hand, cognitive psychology and discourse processing, and, on the other, narratology and literary studies. The present work provides a broad, integrative framework for pursuing research in this field that is approachable by researchers from both disciplinary backgrounds. Bortolussi and Dixon survey the important problems in literary studies and demonstrate by analysis and example how the methodological and empirical tools of cognitive psychology can be applied in this new approach.The field of psychonarratology represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between, on one hand, cognitive psychology and discourse processing, and, on the other, narratology and literary studies. The present work provides a broad, integrative framework for pursuing research in this field that is approachable by researchers from both disciplinary backgrounds. Bortolussi and Dixon survey the important problems in literary studies and demonstrate by analysis and example how the methodological and empirical tools of cognitive psychology can be applied in this new approach.The field of psychonarratology represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive psychology and discourse processing, and narratology and literary studies. This work provides a broad, integrative framework for pursuing research that is approachable by researchers from both disciplinary backgrounds. Marina Bortolussi and Peter Dixon survey the important problems in literary studies and demonstrate how the methodological and empirical tools of cognitive psychology are applied in this new approach.1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. The narrator; 4. Events and plot; 5. Characters and characterization; 6. Perception and focalization; 7. Represented speech and thought; 8. Directions and unsolved problems; Appendix. Evl#(