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About this book
World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory.
The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants.
The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.
The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants.
The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. World Building in Discourse
- 2. ‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction
- 3. Author-Character Ethos in Dan Brown’s Langdon-Series Novels
- 4. Building More-Than-Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives
- 5. Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man
- 6. Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative
- 7. Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics : A Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom
- 8. Worlds from Words: Theories of World-building as Creative Writing Toolbox
- 9. The Texture of Authorial Intention
- 10. Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text-Worlds of The Unconsoled
- 11. ‘This is not the end of the world’: Situating Metaphor in the Text-Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis
- 12. The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy
- 13. Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me : An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style
- 14. Autofocus and Remote Text-World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry
- 15. ‘Into the Futures of their Makers’: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland
- 16. Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley’s ‘Hide and Seek’
- Index
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