Toward a cognitive theory of narrative acts
By: edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series; Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780292721579
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Arts in the brain; or, What might neuroscience tell us? / Herbert Lindenberger; title: Narrative as nourishment / Ellen Spolsky; title: Narrative empathy / Suzanne Keen; title: The biolinguistic turn: toward a new semiotics of film / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach; title: Voice and perception: an evolutionary approach to the basic function of narrative / Katja Mellmann; title: Dreaming and narrative theory / Richard Walsh; title: Cross-cultural mind-reading; or, Coming to terms with the ethnic mother in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Klarina Priborkin; title: Theory of mind and Michael Fried's absorption and theatricality: notes toward cognitive historicism / Lisa Zunshine; title: Garden paths and ineffable effects: abandoning representation in literature and film / H. Porter Abbott; title: Consciousness, ethics, and narrative: reading literature in an age of torture / Patrick Colm Hogan; title: Prophesying with accents terrible: emotion and appraisal in Macbeth / Lalita Pandit Hogan.