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1st Edition

Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels

By Irene O’Leary Copyright 2025

204 Pages

by Routledge

204 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This book is about the dynamic processes that generate novel-reading. It takes the view that the world is composed of dynamic processes and introduces a process dynamics approach to articulate this stance. This fresh perspective draws on literary studies, process philosophy and neuroscience to argue that dynamic literary and microcognitive processes constantly reconfigure the conditions that they... Read more

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Theorising process dynamics

Process and change: process philosophy

Instability and reconfiguration: complexity theory

Dynamic co-creation: cognitive science of reading

Towards dynamic reading processes: cognition in literary studies

Key process dynamics concepts

3 Perturbations, style and microcognition

Grammar and microcognition: The.PowerBook

Characterisation and microcognition: Oryx and Crake

Humour and microcognition: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

4 Morpharchy, narration, working memory and time

Narration, working memory and morpharchy

Fictional time, experienced time and morpharchy

5 Dispersal, allusions and memory

Literary allusions, neural activations and dispersal

Interdisciplinary allusions, memory and dispersal

6 Creativity, fiction and reading

Un/orthodoxy and attention: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Black novelties and association: Oryx and Crake

Storytelling and creativity: The.PowerBook

7 Conclusion

Index

Author(s)

Biography

Irene O’Leary is a literary scholar and teacher.

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