1st Edition

Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts

154 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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-disciplinary approach using readers’ drawings of their mental imagery during reading. The book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler’s seminal work on deixis... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Theoretical Framework

Chapter 3 The Study

Chapter 4 Embodied Cognition and Point of View

Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusion

References

Index

Biography

Bien Klomberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on conceptual blending and the comprehension of (dis)continuity in visual narrative sequences.

Theresa Schilhab is Associate Professor in Cognitive Biology at Danish School of Education (Aarhus University), Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2016 she achieved the higher doctorate (doctor pædagogiæ) in Educational Neuroscience on the monograph Derived Embodiment in Abstract Language (2017), which focuses on the biological perspective on language, and is co-editor of the anthology The Materiality of Reading (with S. Walker, 2020).

Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University), Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the author of Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (2011) and the co-editor of Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition (with E. T. Troscianko, 2017).