Cognitive Narrative Thematics

Introduction

Part I

Chapter 1. Setting the Scene

1.1. Cognitive narrative thematics (CNT) or what this book is about

1.2. Why nobody does thematics

1.3. Two complementary traditions of cognitive thematics

1.4. Two thematics? Cherries vs. cakes

1.5. Countering the reductionist potential of thematics

1.6. Folk psychology and CNT

1.7. Consequences for thematics

Chapter 2. Articulating CNT

2.1. Justifying the premise of CNT: the nature-society binary

2.2. CNT and evolutionary psychology: evolved human motivations

2.3. CNT and modality

2.4. Summarising and justifying CNT

2.5. Two additional models

Part II

Chapter 3. CNT And Rhetorical Poetics

3.1. A new role for CNT vis- a- vis rhetorical poetics

3.2. CNT, rhetorical poetics and "My Last Duchess"

3.3. Conclusion

Chapter 4. CNT and children's stories

4.1. CNT and children's stories I: The Gruffalo

4.2. CNT and children's stories II: Where the Wild Things Are

4.3. Conclusion

Chapter 5. CNT In Comics

5.1. CNT and comics: Hellboy's "Baba Yaga"

5.2. CNT, comics and covert progression: Frank Miller's 300

5.3. Conclusion

Chapter 6. CNT In Academia

6.1. CNT in four histories of the novel

6.2. CNT in digital humanities reports

6.3. Conclusion

Chapter 7. Conclusion