‘Your duplicitous point of view’: Delayed revelations of hypothetical focalisation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sweet Tooth:
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The authors explored two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan, one of the first to explore cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, and the other to explore the possible worlds theory.Abstract:
Framed by cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, this article explores two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan. Building upon Ryan’s (1991) seminal conceptual...read more
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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
TL;DR: Short as discussed by the authors discusses the relationship between linguistics and literary studies and argues that a focus on linguistic mechanism paid no attention to literary considerations; and that stylistics involved the use of technical jargon, which was supposedly disagreeable to students.
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Frameworks: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative
TL;DR: Nelles as mentioned in this paper provides a good overview of earlier and current theories, and the disagreements around those theories, all of which provide a broad context in which readers may locate his instructive approach to this intriguing structural device that is "so widely found in the literature of all cultures and periods as to approach universality" (1).
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Ian McEwan: The Literary Animal
TL;DR: McEwan's engagement with neo-Darwinism in its manifestation as evolutionary psychology is explored in this paper, where the author argues that human behaviour is driven by genetic self-interest and society is structured around competition, while our tendency to self-deception disguises our motives from ourselves and others.
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Keith Oatley, Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction
TL;DR: Oatley as discussed by the authors argues that reading fiction is a "guided dream" or "a model of the world" that offers readers a glimpse "beneath the surface of the everyday world".
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Alternative realities: Counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory
TL;DR: In this paper, a cognitive-narratological approach is proposed to analyse counterfactual historical fiction, a genre that creates fictional worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of the actual world.
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Language and woman's place : text and commentaries
TL;DR: The first edition of Language and Woman's Place as discussed by the authors was published in 1975 and is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers.
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Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of text, knowledge, and inference in the process of text comprehension and understand full, real text from a perspective of generative and discourse perspective.
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Illusory Reduplication of One's Own Body: Phenomenology and Classification of Autoscopic Phenomena.
TL;DR: The main features of autoscope hallucinations, heautoscopy proper, the feeling of a presence, the out-of-body experience, and negative and inner forms of autoscopic phenomena are outlined.
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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
TL;DR: Short as discussed by the authors discusses the relationship between linguistics and literary studies and argues that a focus on linguistic mechanism paid no attention to literary considerations; and that stylistics involved the use of technical jargon, which was supposedly disagreeable to students.