...-called exceptionality thesis. The issue at stake here is whether fictional texts are fundamentally dependent on our general cognitive capacities (a position traditionally held by cognitive narratology) or fundamentally depart from everyday modes of thinking. We revisit the debate in light...

.... This confrontation will also serve as an occasion to reflect on the stakes of these two practices of narratology or narrative theory. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 fictional and factual narratives representation of consciousness fictional minds exceptionality thesis...

... . Bernini Marco . 2016 “ The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis ,” in The Cognitive Humanities. Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture , edited by Garratt Peter , 35 – 54 ( London : Palgrave Macmillan ). Caillois Roger...

... between the proponents of unnatural narratology and those of cognitive narratology. The controversy is outlined by David Herman in his introduction to The Emergence of Mind (2011), where he criticizes the “exceptionality thesis,” by which he refers to the unnaturalizing approach to fictional minds...

... that also proclaim their distinction from fact. For Gallagher, this is the product of a conceptual category of fiction that did not exist prior to the eighteenth century and that can only retrospectively be applied to earlier forms. Gallagher’s thesis invites us to ask whether realist fiction ought...

...; works of visual I gratefully acknowledge the generous editorial assistance I received from Meir Sternberg, who saw the present essay emerge from multiple versions, some of which were attempts to respond to his challenges to my thesis. For me, the sometimes testy exchange was stimulating...

... of Metaphysics 53 ( 4 ): 283 -307. 2000 “E Pluribus Unum? On the Platonic `Corpus': The Discussion Continued,” Ancient Philosophy 20 : 195 -97. Grube, G. M. A. 1933 “The Structural Unity of the Protagoras,” Classical Quarterly 27 : 203 -8. Gulley, Norman 1971 “Socrates' Thesis...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

..., where a preceding crisis of storytelling was exceptionally acute. Meretoja views both the crisis of and the (re)turn to storytelling as responses to the cultural situation brought about by World War II. In this regard the study aims to overcome the separation that supposedly exists between...

... the expectation that the life described must be exceptional and exciting. In traditional autobiographical discourses, this exceptionality was guaranteed either by “individuality and greatness” (203) or by particularly compelling stories that were characterized by a radical transformation—for example, a conversion...

... work (e.g., Frederick Jackson Turner’s [1996 {1893}] “frontier theory and more recent scholarship (e.g., Seymour Martin Lipset’s [1997] thesis of “American exceptionalism To establish individuality, however, “The Baba Yaga” must provide evi- dence beyond a possible allusion to a US myth external...

... what remain recognizably religious desires. Such cultural, institutional, and psychological formations play to both sides of the so-called secularization thesis, affirming ideas concerning the dissolution of religious authority even as they attest to a residual glimmer of numinosity . . . sum- mons...

... variations on the central thesis he defends are marred by his typi- cally nonchalant attitude to the work of his predecessors; by his proclivity to rhetoric effects, sometimes at the expense of clarity and depth; and, last but not least, by his delight in name-dropping. Shklovsky, for example, refers...

... . Levin uses an Emily Dickinson poem as an example to illustrate his thesis: The mountain sat upon the plain / In his eternal chair / His observation omnifold / His inquest everywhere. / The seasons prayed around his knees, / Like children round...

..., and Form in Verbal Art’’ (Bakhtin 1990b; prepared for publication in 1924, first published in 1975). 9. The review is not, however, a rave. Shklovsky (1957: 221) calls Bakhtin’s 1963 book on Dostoevsky ‘‘interesting’’ for its thesis of paired heroes and for its theory that authorial voice in the novels...