The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies

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Notes on contributors

Introduction

Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider

PART I

Historical Developments

Cognitive Literary Studies: The History of the Field

1 Narratology and Cognition

Jan Alber

2 The History of the Field: From Reader-Response Theory to Cognitive Literary Studies

Sven Strasen

3 Neurobiology and Literature

Donald R. Wehrs

PART II

Core Issues and Debates

Cognitive Narratology

4 "Natural" Narratology and Experientiality Maria Maekelae

5 Schema Theory

Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander

6 Cognition and the Reception of Literary Character

Ralf Schneider

7 Possible Worlds and Cognition

Marie-Laure Ryan

8 The Phenomenon of Narrative Immersion

Federico Pianzola

9 Blending and Literature

Marcus Hartner

10 The Cognitive Processing of Experimental Literature

Lars Bernaerts

11 Interdisciplinary Mind Modeling: Exploratory Cycles in Cognitive Science, Narrative Theory, and Fictional Creativity

Marco Bernini

Cognitive Linguistics and Literature

12 Stylistics

Peter Stockwell

13 Text World Theory

Sara Whiteley

14 Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Marcello Giovanelli and Chloe Harrison

15 Storyworld Possible Selves

Maria-Angeles Martinez

16 Metaphor, Cognition, and Narrative Fiction

Yanna Popova

Literature and Emotional Impact

17 The Emotional Impact of Literature Patrick Colm Hogan

18 Neuroscience and Aesthetic Emotions

Paul Armstrong

19 Literature and Persuasion

Kobie van Krieken and Jose Sanders

PART III

New Debates

4E Cognition and Literary Reading

20 What Is 4E Cognition?

Regina E. Fabry

21 Building Blocks for an Embodied Narratology

Marco Caracciolo

22 Literature and Enactive Cognition

Merja Polvinen

23 Situation Models and Embodied Cognition

Jessica Jumpertz

Culture and Cognition

24 Cognition and Cultural Studies

Marcus Friedrich and Ruediger Heinze

25 Narrative, Culture, and Identity

Deborah de Muijnck

26 Practical Suggestions for Using Research on Theory of Mind in Literary and Cultural Studies

Lisa Zunshine

27 The Phylogenetic Basis of Poetic Behavior

Katja Mellmann

28 Cognition and Culture: The Subversive Potential of Second-Person Narratives

Denise Wong

29 Postcolonial Cognitive (Literary) Studies

Alexandra Effe

30 Cognition and Gender: Handwriting, Multimodal Poetry, and the Upending of Stereotypes

Torsa Ghosal

Empirical Literary Studies

31 The Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Processes: The Ghost of Scientism in Empirical Literary Studies

Paul Sopcak

32 Foregrounding: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding

Frank Hakemulder, Amir Harash, and Giulia Scapin

33 Engaging with Literature in Print, on Screen Displays, and in Audiobooks: Current Findings and Perspectives for Future Empirical Research

Anne Mangen and Kari Spjeldnas

34 Empirical Ecocriticism

W. P. Malecki

35 Absorption and Impact on Self-Concept When Reading Climate Fiction

Cristina Loi, Massimo Lusetti and Moniek Kuijpers

36 The Sound of Meaning, and the Meaning of Sound: Phonetic Iconicity in Literature

Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova