@book {harrison_cognitive_2017, title = {Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction}, year = {2017}, note = {Google-Books-ID: hbm_nQAACAAJ}, month = {may}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, organization = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, abstract = {This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and mind-modelling, amongst others), the volume scales up central Cognitive Grammar concepts (such as construal, grounding, the reference point model and action chains) in order to explore the attenuation of experience - and how it is simulated - in literary reading. In particular, it considers a range of contemporary texts by Neil Gaiman, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan and Paul Auster. This application builds upon previous work that adopts Cognitive Grammar for literary analysis and provides the first extended account of Cognitive Grammar in contemporary fiction.}, keywords = {Literary Criticism / Semiotics \& Theory}, isbn = {978-90-272-3415-5}, author = {Harrison, Chloe} } @book {olmos_narration_2017, title = {Narration as Argument}, year = {2017}, note = {Google-Books-ID: IGLTDgAAQBAJ}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives{\textquoteright} potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title {\textquotedblleft}Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument{\textquotedblright}, includes five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and characteristically philosophical issues related to the argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently approached certain topics that have a close connection with mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part, entitled {\textquotedblleft}Argumentative Narratives in Context{\textquotedblright}, brings us six more chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative discourse.}, keywords = {Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics, Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Literary Criticism / Semiotics \& Theory, Philosophy / Epistemology, Philosophy / General, Philosophy / Language, Philosophy / Logic, Philosophy / Reference}, isbn = {978-3-319-56883-6}, author = {Olmos, Paula} } @book {garratt_cognitive_2016, title = {The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture}, year = {2016}, note = {00000 Google-Books-ID: QcKWDQAAQBAJ}, publisher = {Palgrave MacMillan}, organization = {Palgrave MacMillan}, address = {London}, abstract = {This book identifies the {\textquoteleft}cognitive humanities{\textquoteright} with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation{\textemdash}a Cartesian inner theatre{\textemdash}than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but engaging much more extensively with {\textquoteleft}4E{\textquoteright} cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind through culture.}, keywords = {Language Arts \& Disciplines / Library \& Information Science / General, Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical \& Comparative, Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics \& Theory, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology \& Cognition}, isbn = {978-1-137-59329-0}, author = {Garratt, Peter} } @book {huber_present_2016, title = {Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction: A Narratological Overview}, year = {2016}, note = {Google-Books-ID: Rz8sDQAAQBAJ}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction seeks to account for the growing prevalence and frequency of present tense narration in modern literature. In order to better understand the conditions and effects of the technique, the book situates its discussion in a historical context and examines a variety of present-tense usage in works by prominent contemporary authors, including John Burnside, Will Self and Hilary Mantel.}, keywords = {Fiction / General, Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical \& Comparative, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics \& Theory}, isbn = {978-1-137-56213-5}, author = {Huber, Irmtraud} } @inbook {lehtimaki_navigatingmaking_2012, title = {Navigating{\textendash}Making Sense{\textendash}Interpreting (The Reader behind La Jalousie)}, booktitle = {Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature}, year = {2012}, note = {Google-Books-ID: NKXualYUt3IC}, publisher = {Walter de Gruyter}, organization = {Walter de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, abstract = {

Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking potential of individual literary narratives. Narrative, Interrupted goes beyond the macro framing typical of postclassical narratology and sets out to sketch approaches more sensitive to generic specificities, disturbing details and authorial interference. Unlike the mainstream cognitive approaches or even the emergent unnatural narratology, the articles collected here explore the artifice involved in presenting something ordinary and realistic in literature. The first section of the book deals with anti-dynamic elements such as dialogue, details, private events and literary boredom. The second section, devoted to extensions of cognitive narratology, addresses spatiotemporal oddities and the possibility of non-human narratives. The third section focuses on frame-breaking, fragmentarity and problems of authorship in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. The book presents readings of texts ranging from the novels of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon to the Animal Man comics. The common denominator for the texts discussed is the interruption of the chain of events or of the experiential flow of human-like narrative agents.

}, keywords = {Irish, Language Arts \& Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical \& Comparative, Literary Criticism / European / Eastern, Literary Criticism / European / English, Literary Criticism / European / General, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics \& Theory, Scottish, Welsh}, isbn = {978-3-11-025997-1}, author = {M{\"a}kel{\"a}, Maria}, editor = {Lehtim{\"a}ki, Markku and Karttunen, Laura and M{\"a}kel{\"a}, Maria} }