What does it mean to be transported by a narrative—to create a world inside one’s head? How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book Richard Gerrig integrates insights from cognitive psychology and from research linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to provide a cohesive account of what we have most often treated as isolated aspects of narrative experience.Drawing on examples from Tolstoy to Toni Morrison, Gerrig offers new analysis of some classic problems in the study of narrative. He discusses the ways in which we are cognitively equipped to tackle fictional and nonfictional narratives; how thought and emotion interact when we experience narrative; how narrative information influences judgments in the real world; and the reasons we can feel the same excitement and suspense when we reread a book as when we read it for the first time. Gerrig also explores the ways we enhance the experience of narratives, through finding solutions to textual dilemmas, enjoying irony at the expense of characters in the narrative, and applying a wide range of interpretive techniques to discover meanings concealed by and from authors.
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By B. Wollip (a place they call the midwest) - See all my reviews
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Experiencing Narrative Worlds constitutes an interesting approach to psycholinguistic research, but I wish Gerrig would stick to writing erotic short fiction.
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- Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment: Second International Conference, TIDSE 2004, Darmstadt, Germany, June 24-26, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Stefan Göbel on page 59
- The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Language and Literacy (RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education) by Teresa Grainger on page 251
- Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling: International Conference ICVS 2001 Avignon, France, September 27-28, 2001 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Olivier Balet on page 109
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