Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

ISBN-13: 9780367023522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Michael Toolan

Opis

In this book, Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles, narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work.

Spis treści

1. From Intersentential Connection to Interpersonal Engagement 2. Patterning by Lexical Repetition and "The Princess and the Pea" 3. Situation 4. Mental Picturing 5. Integrating lexical patterning and the 'pictured' narrative situation 6. Attempting to bring it all together: repeated renewal of the pictured situation

O autorze

Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.