Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture)

Arts In The Brain; Or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? / Herbert Lindenberger -- Narrative As Nourishment / Ellen Spolsky -- Narrative Empathy / Suzanne Keen -- The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward A New Semiotics Of Film / Javier Gutiŕrez-rexach -- Voice And Perception: An Evolutionary Approach To The Basic Function Of Narrative / Katja Mellmann -- Dreaming And Narrative Theory / Richard Walsh -- Cross-cultural Mind-reading; Or, Coming To Terms With The Ethnic Mother In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Klarina Priborkin -- Theory Of Mind And Michael Fried's Absorption And Theatricality: Notes Toward Cognitive Historicism / Lisa Zunshine -- Garden Paths And Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation In Literature And Film / H. Porter Abbott -- Consciousness, Ethics, And Narrative: Reading Literature In An Age Of Torture / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Prophesying With Accents Terrible: Emotion And Appraisal In Macbeth / Lalita Pandit Hogan. Edited By Frederick Luis Aldama. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.