Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses, the experiential level of their engagement with narrative remains relatively undertheorized. Building on theories of experience and embodiment within today's "second-generation" cognitive science, and opening a dialogue with so-called "enactivist" philosophy, this book sets out to explore how narrative experiences arise from the interaction...

Mentale Ereignisse, die die erzahlten Figuren betreffen, bilden ein wesentliches Thema von Erzahlwerken. Nach der Typologisierung von Verfahren, die Bewusstseinsinhalte der Figuren darstellen, einem Abriss der Bedingungen von Ereignissen und der Kriterien fur Ereignishaftigkeit werden klassische Erzahlwerke unterschiedlicher Kulturen und Epochen daraufhin untersucht, wie sie Bewusstseinsveranderungen der Figuren gestalten. Der Parcours setzt ein mit den beiden groen Epen des deutschen Mittelalters "Parzival" und "Tristan." An den Briefromanen Richardsons und den weitgehend figural...

The Narratologiaseries publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law.

The series publishes in German and English. All volumes are peer reviewed by two anonymous assessors.