Reading Mutant Narratives : The Bodily Experientiality of Contemporary Ecological Science Fiction
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"Reading Mutant Narratives : The Bod..." refers background in this paper
...…posthumanism (see Wolfe 2010, Nayar 2014), cognitive literary studies (see Zunshine 2006, Cave 2016, Kukkonen 2019), Darwinist literary studies (see Carroll 2004, Boyd 2009), human animal studies (see Wolfe 2010), and feminist philosophy of science (see Haraway 1991, Åsberg et al. 2011)....
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...Instead, it foregrounds the material elements that participate in the formation of bodies and identities, including biological, technological, economic, and ecological elements (see Barad 2003, Alaimo 2010, Bennett 2010, and Åsberg et al. 2011)....
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...…theory helps us to delve deeper into topics relevant to both posthumanism and cognitive literary studies: bodily materiality, cultural construction of embodied experience, and the dynamics of subjective and collective change (see Åsberg et al. 2011, Braidotti 2013, 24–26, and Neimanis 2017, 10–12)....
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...Cognitive reading studies suggest that reading fiction can help to effect changes in self-perception (Kuiken et al. 2004, Sikora et al. 2011), personality traits (Djikic et al. 2009), environmental perception (Kuzmičová 2016), and behavior (Kaufman and Libby 2012)....
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...In this chapter, I introduce studies that identify specific reading styles, such as “expressive enactment” (Sikora et al. 2011), and suggest that the insights in these styles can contribute to developing new modes of close reading....
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...Analyzing these responses, the authors identified several styles of reading, including a style of reading they call “expressive enactment” (Sikora et al. 2011, 263)....
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...In an empirical phenomenological study on reader-response conducted by Don Kuiken, David S. Miall and Shelley Sikora (Kuiken et al. 2004, Sikora et al. 2011), the participants read a long poem....
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...The authors point out that expressive enactment differs from other modes of reader response in that it combines personal reflection with engagement with the formal features of the text (Sikora et al. 2011, 267)....
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...Noë, Alva....
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...This work has been carried on by cognitive scientists and philosophers such as Daniel Hutto, Michelle Maiese, Giovanna Colombetti, and Alva Noë....
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...O’Regan, J. Kevin and Noë, Alva....
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...Rather, I am guided into adopting a certain style of embodied experience, through which the empathetic, socially attuned reading feels natural (see Warhol 2003, Braidotti 2013, Noë 2015)....
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...66 In Alva Noë’s (2015, 5–6, 11–18) terms, daily encounters with physical environments do not only provide human cognizers with affordances for action but also organize them in structured activities....
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