Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading

Talk About Books : A Study of Reading Groups

“…It also supports the idea that readers experience fictional worlds by drawing heavily on their real-world knowledge and experiences (e.g. Andringa, 2004;Gavins, 2007;Rall and Harris, 2000;Stockwell, 2009). …”

“…Miall and Kuiken 1994van Peer, 1986;Sotirova, 2006), and cognitive poetics (e.g. Gavins, 2007;Stockwell, 2002;Stockwell, 2009;Semino and Culpeper, 2002). The former, psychology of reading approach has tended to focus on how people in quasi-laboratory conditions process very small chunks of narrative.…”

“…When reporting on their reading history, readers frequently cited identification with characters as an important part of reading enjoyment (Andringa 2004: 211). In particular, readers reported experiencing 'similarity identification', seeing similarities between themselves and a character, and deriving pleasure from this (Andringa 2004: 226; see also Rall and Harris [2000] and Stockwell [2005Stockwell [ , 2009). …”

“…Gavins, 2007;Stockwell, 2005Stockwell, , 2009Whiteley, 2011), literary pragmatics (e.g. MacMahon 2009a, 2009b and narratology (e.g.…”

The year’s work in stylistics 2016

“…Several chapters in Gavins and Lahey's volume advance Text World Theory's capacity to deal with the discourseworld; Lahey (2016), for example, demonstrates the influence of the text-world on our understanding of the discourse-world from which it emerges and Gibbons (2016) explores the interaction between fact and fiction in immersive theatre. In other contributions worlds-based approaches are proven to work comfortably alongside other frameworks, such as Stockwell's (2009) (Lugea 2016a) Text World Theory is tested and developed by analysing many oral versions of the same story, transcribed to create a corpus of spoken narratives. The data is gathered using the 'frog story method' (Berman and Slobin 1994), whereby a wordless picture book is used to elicit spoken narratives from participants.…”