Approaches to narrative study that fall under the heading of cognitive narratology share a
focus on the mental states, capacities, and dispositions that provide grounds for—or …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Research in the cognitive sciences, including fields such as psychology, linguistics, and the
philosophy of mind, can help foster the development of" postclassical" approaches to the …

Cognitive approaches have been widely hailed as “the next big thing” in the beleaguered
field of literary studies. But despite a widespread interest for what narrative means for the life …

This essay begins from the assumption that mapping words onto worlds is a fundamental—
perhaps the fundamental—requirement for narrative sense making. To explore how people …

This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and
situates the study of such narratives in relation to the new comprehensive approach to …

How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are
reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast …

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends
disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative …

Discusses coverage of the The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
regarding cognitive science and narrative theory. The theories, data, and insights reported in …

Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to
themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volume describes …