Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE; 1 A basis for analysis: schema theory, its general principles, history and terminology; Introduction; Schema theory: general principles; Examples demonstrating schemata in discourse processing; Evidence for schemata; World schemata and text schemata; The origins of schema theory; Bartlett's Remembering; The eclipse of schema theory; The revival of schema theory; The terminology of schema theory; Notes; 2 A first bearing: discourse analysis and its limitations; Introduction; 'Text', 'context', and 'discourse'; Acceptability above the sentence; Cohesion; The omission fallacy; Meaning as encoding/decoding versus meaning as construction; Pragmatic approaches and their capacity to characterize 'literariness'; Macro-functions; Discourse structure; Discourse as process (and literature as conversation); Discourse as dialogue; The 'post-scientific' approach; Conclusion; Notes; 3 A second bearing: AI text theory and its limitations; Introduction; The computational and brain paradigms of language; The constructivist principle; One system of conceptual construction: conceptual dependency theory (CD); Problems for conceptual constructions; A complex AI schema theory; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Testing the AI approach. Two analyses: a 'literary' and a 'non-literary' text; Introduction; Text One: the opening of Crime and Punishment (translation); Text Two: 'Every cloud has a Silver Lining' (advertisement); Conclusions from analyses; Notes; 5 A third bearing: literary theories from formalism to stylistics; Introduction; The rise of 'modern literary theory'; Theories of pattern and deviation; The formalist theory of defamiliarization; Patterns in discourse: structures and structuralism; Roman Jakobson's poetics; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Incorporating the reader: two analyses combining stylistics and schema theory; Introduction; Text Three: 'Elizabeth Taylor's Passion' (advertisement); Text Four: 'First World War Poets' (poem); Incorporating the reader; Notes; PART TWO; 7 A theory of discourse deviation: schema refreshment and cognitive change; Introduction: the argument so far; The need for schema change; Prelude to the theory: earlier accounts of schema change; A theory of literary discourse: schema refreshment and cognitive change; A theory of literary discourse: discourse deviation; Defamiliarization revisited; Notes; 8 Application of the theory: discourse deviation in three literary texts; Introduction; Text Five: 'The Tyger'; Text Six: The Turn of the Screw; Text Seven: 'The Windhover'; Conclusion; Notes; 9 What the theory means for literature teaching; Appendix A: Grammatical notation: symbols and abbreviations; Appendix B: Conceptual dependency (CD) and semantics; Bibliography; Index
