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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Merja PolvinenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.349kg ISBN: 9781032263748ISBN 10: 1032263741 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 30 December 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: An Enactive Approach to Self-Reflective Fiction The Metaphorical Seeing-As 2.1 ‘A Clean, Bright Paradox’: A.S. Byatt’s Self-Conscious Realism in Still Life 2.2 Speculative Fiction, Self-Reflection and Literal Narratology in Catherynne M. Valente’s ‘Silently and Very Fast’ The Artificial Spatiality of Literary Environments 3.1 Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds: China Miéville’s The City & The City 3.2 Making Space: Affordances and Literary Engagement in Ali Smith’s There but for the Temporality and Embodied Knowledge The Speed of Thought in John Barth’s ‘On with the Story’ Self-Reflective Knowledge and Narrative Emotions in Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ Fictionality as Artifice Affect and Artifice in Dave Eggers’s The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Double Vision and the Instrumental Value of Fiction: Christopher Priest’s The PrestigeReviewsMerja Polvinen's Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition productively challenges the idea that immersion in narrative involves losing awareness of literary form. It rethinks the act of reading by combining close discussion of speculative fiction with a sophisticated cognitive theory of narrative. - Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English, Ghent University, Belgium Fictional worlds that pull you in by showing you how they are made, self-referential narrators and a double-take on perception through literary texts: Drawing on cutting-edge cognitive science and literary studies, Merja Polvinen lifts the curtain on how literature works its magic. - Professor Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo, Norway. Author InformationMerja Polvinen is Senior Lecturer in English studies and Docent (Associate Professor) in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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