Fiction is the simulation of selves in interaction. People who read it improve their
understanding of others. This effect is especially marked with literary fiction, which also …

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity.
Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories …

Transformative effects of reading, in terms of shifts in self-understanding and enhanced
social cognition, have been the topic of a variety of theoretical and empirical studies recently …

Stylistics is the study of linguistic patterns in texts. Put simply, it is the exploration and
consideration of the relationship between linguistic choice and literary interpretation. With its …

The emergence of big data analytics (BDA) has posed opportunities as well as multiple
challenges to business practitioners, who have called for research on the behavioural …

A key assumption of the neurocognitive poetics model (NCPM; Jacobs, 2015a) of literary
reading is the duality of immersive and aesthetic processes being conceived as rival forces …

This article presents a critical viewpoint on the existing research to establish the boundaries
of immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, exploring distinctions between sensorial …

This volume presents a multidisciplinary approach to narrative engagement within the
paradigms of cognitive linguistics, cognitive narratology, and social-psychology. In their …

David Miall was, for many scholars, the person welcoming them into the field of empirical
literary studies. The research he conducted together with Don Kuiken on the effects of …

This book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are
less discussed—Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these …