Stories and minds : cognitive approaches to literary narrative /Lars Bernaerts

Introduction : cognitive narrative studies : themes and variations / Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck --
Minding the text : memory for literary narrative / Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon --
Rhetorical control of readers' attention : psychological and stylistic perspectives on foreground and background in narrative / Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, and Marc Alexander --
Partial cues and narrative understanding in Anna Karenina / Elaine Auyoung --
Blind reading : toward an enactivist theory of the reader's imagination / Marco Caracciolo --
The words and worlds of literary narrative : the trade-off between verbal presence and direct presence in the activity of reading / Anežka Kuzmičová --
Cycles of narrative necessity : suspect tellers and the textuality of fictional minds / Maria Mäkelä --
Other stories, other minds : the intercultural potential of cognitive approaches to narrative / Roy Sommer --
Plot, morality, and folk psychology research / Bart Keunen --
Afterword : narrative and mind: directions for inquiry / David Herman.

How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in "Stories and Minds," a collection of essays that discusses cutting-edge research in the field of cognitive narrative studies. Recent findings in the philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, among other disciplines, are integrated in fresh theoretical perspectives and illustrated with accompanying analyses of literary fiction. Pursuing such topics as narrative gaps, mental simulation in reading, theory of mind, and folk psychology, these essays address fundamental questions about the role of cognitive processes in literary narratives and in narrative comprehension. Stories and Minds reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind