Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.
Contents:
Spatial metaphors for immersion, transportation, and presence -- Authors and narrators as embodied narrative agents -- Reappraising focalization -- Affective routes to narrative space -- Temporal metaphors for narrative engagement -- Embodying narrative action -- Plot, abstraction, and situated conceptualization -- Back to authors and narrators -- Entanglements: embodied narratology meets literary history, posthumanism, computational intelligence, gender/sex, and world literature.
Summary:
"Pairs a broad range of literature-narratives from antiquity to the present composed in various languages, from Apuleius's Metamorphoses to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall-with recent research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy of mind"-- Provided by publisher.
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