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The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach
Marco Caracciolo
- Vol. 43
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The authors studied the dynamics underlying readers' responses to narrative through close readings of literary texts and theoretical discussion in ways that shed light on the deep connection between narrative, literary fiction, and human experience.Abstract:
How do readers experience literary narrative? Drawing on narrative theory, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind, this book offers a principled account of the dynamics underlying readers' responses to narrative Through its interdisciplinary approach, this study combines close readings of literary texts and theoretical discussion in ways that shed light on the deep connection between narrative, literary fiction, and human experienceread more
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Posthuman Narration as a Test Bed for Experientiality: The Case of Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos
TL;DR: In this article, a close reading of Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985), a novel set a million years into the future, when humanity has evolved into a radically different species, is used as a springboard to rethink narrative's experientiality.
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Virtual reality as a tool for promoting reading via enhanced narrative absorption and empathy
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Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline some of the key ideas and concepts in narrative theory, in order to make the field more accessible to those who have only a passing acquaintance with it (complexity scientists in particular).
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Toward a Poetics of Posthumanist Narrative Using Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
TL;DR: The authors argue that posthumanist narratives use various discursive strategies to generate shifts in readers that form, or bring to consciousness, a sense of already being a posthuman, and they propose a novel posthumanism as a vehicle for critical posthuman consciousness.