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World building : discourse in the mind

Joanna Gavins (Editor), Ernestine Lahey (Editor)
eBook, English, 2017
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2017
1 online resource
9781472586544, 1472586549
1100914317
Notes on Contributors1. World Building in Discourse, Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey 2. ‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction, Alice Bell 3. Author-Character Ethos in Dan Brown’s Langdon-Series Novels, Ernestine Lahey4. Building More-Than-Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives, David Herman 5. Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man, Alison Gibbons6. Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative, Isabelle van der Bom7. Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics: a Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom, Marcello Giovanelli8. Worlds from Words: Theories of World-building as Creative Writing Toolbox, Jeremy Scott9. The Texture of Authorial Intention, Peter Stockwell10. Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text-Worlds of The Unconsoled, Sara Whiteley11. ‘This is not the end of the world’: Situating Metaphor in the Text-Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis, Sam Browse12. The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy, Agnes Marszalek13. Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me: An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style, Jane Lugea 14. Autofocus and Remote Text-World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry, Antonina Harbus15. Into the Futures of their Makers: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland, Nigel McLoughlin 16. Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley’s ‘Hide and Seek’, Joanna GavinsIndex