This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of
research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In …

How do participating in a work of fiction and imagining a fictional world intertwine with the
reader's life? I develop an account that explores the relation between fiction reading and the …

This study presents an experimental approach to storyworld possible selves (SPSs,
Martínez, 2014), a construct that describes how individuals activate the temporal dimensions …

Bringing together narrative elements, virtual affordances, and participants' embodied
interactions, virtual reality (VR) movies instantiate new narrative techniques by offering an …

Research into narrative experiencing acknowledges the role played by mental imagery in
readers' emotional responses and feelings of embodiment. In narratives, mental imagery is …

This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in
literary discourses, determines individuals' mental" vision," employing an innovative cross …

Narrative experiencers frequently report broadly differing narrative responses. Literary
scholarship customarily addresses those shared by communities of readers as pertaining to …

This study empirically investigates reader responses to the one-page graphic narrative
'City'within the theoretical framework of storyworld possible selves. These are blended …

Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad explains why people care about this foundational epic
poem and its characters. It represents the first book-length application to the Iliad of research …

This study explores pictorial narrativity in Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of a
Young Man in his Studio (ca. 1527), with attention to the visual representation of mental …