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Engaged Reading as Mental Work
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This article presented an account of the design and perceived results of a course on cognitive narratology, including issues such as social cognition (mind reading) and the mental construction of fictional worlds.Abstract:
This article presents an account of the design and perceived results of a course on cognitive narratology. The course aims to introduce the theoretical apparatus of cognitive narratology, including issues such as social cognition (mind reading) and the mental construction of fictional worlds. Students explore these issues by reading and analyzing science fiction and fantasy texts in which various narrative conventions are concretized within what would normally be impossible worlds and scenarios. The aim in using texts from popular genres is both to create in students reading experiences that engage their imaginations and to give them explicit illustrations of the cognitive functions of narrative. Of these functions, the course focuses on literature as mental work, that is, on texts providing dynamic patterns of thought for readers to act out. A focus on literature as mental work can provide students with a theoretical outlook and analytical toolbox while at the same time preserving a central role for thei...read more
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TL;DR: Graff as discussed by the authors describes how schooling obscures the life of the mind: "Curious in Academe" and "How Schooling Obscures The Life of the Mind".
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The Secret Life of Fiction
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Empathy and the Novel
TL;DR: Keen as mentioned in this paper argues that readers' perception of a text's fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy, by releasing readers from their guarded responses to the demands of real others.
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Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
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Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of figures and tables from a collection of Narrative Microdesigns, including States, Events, and Actions, Scripts, Sequences, and Stories.