What does it mean to be transported by a narrative?to create a
world inside one's head? How do experiences of narrative worlds
alter our experience of the real world? In this book Richard Gerrig
integrates insights from cognitive psychology and from research
linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to provide a
cohesive account of what we have most often treated as isolated
aspects of narrative experience.Drawing on examples from Tolstoy to
Toni Morrison, Gerrig offers new analysis of some classic problems
in the study of narrative. He discusses the ways in which we are
cognitively equipped to tackle fictional and nonfictional
narratives; how thought and emotion interact when we experience
narrative; how narrative information influences judgments in the
real world; and the reasons we can feel the same excitement and
suspense when we reread a book as when we read it for the first
time. Gerrig also explores the ways we enhance the experience of
narratives, through finding solutions to textual dilemmas, enjoying
irony at the expense of characters in the narrative, and applying a
wide range of interpretive techniques to discover meanings
concealed by and from authors.
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