ABSTRACT A fictional story is always narrated from a certain narrative voice and mode of
focalization. These core narrative techniques have a major impact on how readers interpret …

The current study, set within the larger enterprise of Neuro-Cognitive Poetics, was designed
to examine how readers deal with the 'cut'–a more or less sharp semantic-conceptual break …

The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author
publicity materials suggest the concept of an author's creative intentions is important to …

Guy, Scott, Conklin, and Carrol join forces to analyze controversial questions about multi-
volume variorum editions of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century writers such as …

We use eye tracking to investigate the attention readers pay to different textual features to
determine their significance in the appreciation of prose fiction. Previous research examined …

Text World Theory (Gavins 2007; Werth 1999) is a cognitive-linguistic model of discourse
processing which describes mental representations that discourse participants create during …

This chapter introduces psycholinguistic approaches to understanding how readers process
the language of literary texts, with the aim of explaining how this methodology can …

One major research area in the empirical study of literature pertains to the role of
foregrounding (ie, stylistic deviations and parallelism) in the reading process. The …

Natural reading is rather like a juggling feat, as our eyes and minds are kept on several
things at the same time. Instead, reading texts developed by researchers (so-called …

This chapter minutely describes the model that subtitles the book, enabling other scholars to
apply it consistently. The skeleton of the model rests on an intuitive distinction between RIDs …