...Lars Bernaerts; Brian Richardson In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem mutually exclusive. They each highlight different aspects of what narrators and characters think and feel, and their explanatory grounds differ. An unnatural reading...

... ). Collective Minds in Fact and Fiction: Intermental Thought and Group Consciousness in Early Modern Narrative Monika Fludernik University of Freiburg, Germany, English Literature Abstract Taking its inspiration from cognitive narratology and particularly the work of Alan Palmer on the Victorian...

... these possibilities within its own potential, absolutely no need for a partitioned, self-contained practice of criticism or critical theory’’ Brian McHale, West Virginia University Vladimir Tumanov, Mind Reading: Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction. Amsterdam...

...Maria Mäkelä The article challenges both cognitive-universalist and unnatural-exceptionalist approaches to fictional minds by analyzing how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novel merges the premodern poetics of exemplarity with emergent modern techniques of representing consciousness...

... Kornbluh that expands the notion of form to include infrastructures, institutions, and other entities that provide sustenance and continuity to offer a different account of the cultural work such fictions do. The essay argues that two canonical works of fiction about dementia— J. Bernlef's Out of Mind...

.... 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...

... Inferences: Pragmatics and The Inheritors ,” Language and Style 18 , no. 2 : 173 – 212 . Cohn Dorrit . 1978 Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Cohn Dorrit . 1999 The Distinction of Fiction...

... of nineteenth-century historiography to explore potential differences between fictional and historiographical treatments of crowds. It concludes that, while histories tend to be pragmatically inclined to treat crowds as social minds, the distinctive affordances of fiction allowed nineteenth-century novelists...

... and the Redemption of Fiction ,” Mosaic 41 ( 1 ): 169 – 84 . Johnson Jenell M. 2008 “ To Find the Soul, It Is Necessary to Lose It: Neuroscience, Disability, and the Epigraph to The Echo Maker ,” in Burn and Dempsey 2008 : 215 – 18 . Kirsch Adam 2008 “ A Slight Trick of the Mind: Rivka...

...Lisa Zunshine This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking...

...Haiyan Lee This article seeks to historicize the affinity between narrative fiction and the cognitive function known as theory of mind. The author believes this affinity holds true mostly in modern commercial societies structured by stranger sociality, cosmopolitanism, and social mobility...

..., and theory of mind should apply to fictional characters as well as real people if we are to be able to follow a narrative. (Theory of mind is one of the places where literary Darwinism and cognitive literary studies overlap: for a brilliant exposition of that overlap, done with great verve and style, see...

...Micah L. Mumper; Richard J. Gerrig Research evidence supports the claim that engagement with works of fiction may benefit readers’ social cognitive abilities of empathy and theory of mind. However, there is little direct evidence to support claims about the causal mechanisms underlying the positive...

... of Modern Verse ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Zunshine Lisa 2006 Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities Joshua Landy Stanford University...

... of fiction—George Eliot's Middlemarch —with his arguments in mind. Eliot's novel also raises issues about the way that narrative connects with emotions, issues that, I argue, illuminate the structure of narrative itself. References Boehm Christopher 1999 Hierarchy in the Forest...

... the Mind Makes Meaning ( New York : Basic Books ). Caracciolo Marco . 2011 “ The Reader’s Virtual Body: Narrative Space and Its Reconstruction ,” Storyworlds 3 : 117 – 38 . Caracciolo Marco . 2014a “ Beyond Other Minds: Fictional Characters, Mental Simulation, and ‘Unnatural...

...- psychological concepts in order to explain how contemporary forms of narrative media — specifically print novels, digital fiction, and story-driven video games — produce their storytelling effects. In the interpretive mode, he explains what his readings mean for our understanding of “actual minds...

... Bowles Patrick ( New York : Grove ). Bernini Marco . 2015 “ Crawling Creating Creatures: On Beckett’s Liminal Minds ,” European Journal of English Studies 19 , no. 1 : 39 – 54 . Boyd Brian . 2009 On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction ( Cambridge...

... Notes on Contributors Elaine Auyoung is McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Min- nesota, associate professor of English, and affiliate faculty of the Center for Cog- nitive Sciences. She is the author ofWhen Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (2018). Rita...

... Fictional Minds ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ). Parker Joshua 2012 Écrire son lecteur: L’évolution de la deuxième personne ( Saarbrücken : Éditions Universitaires Européennes ). Passias Katherine 1976 “ Deep Surface Structure of the Narrative Person Vous...