Luc Herman

Dirk de Geest

Lars Bernaerts

Bart Vervaeck

How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in Stories and Minds, a collection of essays that discusses cutting-edge research in the field of cognitive narrative studies. Recent findings in the philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, among other disciplines, are integrated in fresh theoretical perspectives and illustrated with accompanying analyses of literary fiction. Pursuing such topics as narrative gaps, mental simulation in reading, theory of mind, and folk psychology, these essays address fundamental questions about the role of cognitive processes in literary narratives and in narrative comprehension. Stories and Minds reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind.

Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative

Stories and Minds

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story. In addition to discussing classical theorists, such as Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, and Seymour Chatman, Handbook of Narrative Analysis presents precursors (such as E. M. Forster), related theorists (Franz Stanzel, Dorrit Cohn), and a large variety of postclassical critics. Among the latter particular attention is paid to rhetorical, cognitive, and cultural approaches; intermediality; storyworlds; gender theory; and natural and unnatural narratology. Not content to consider theory as an end in itself, Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck use two short stories and a graphic narrative by contemporary authors as touchstones to illustrate each approach to narrative. In doing so they illuminate the practical implications of theoretical preferences and the ideological leanings underlying them. Marginal glosses guide the reader through discussions of theoretical issues, and an extensive bibliography points readers to the most current publications in the field. Written in an accessible style, this handbook combines a comprehensive treatment of its subject with a user-friendly format appropriate for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the go-to book for understanding and interpreting narrative. This new edition revises and extends the first edition to describe and apply the last fifteen years of cutting-edge scholarship in the field of narrative theory.

Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Hans Vandevoorde

Jan Walravens (1920-1965) played a central role in Flemish literature as he introduced and facilitated literary experiments after the Second World War. He was a leading essayist and literary critic, who wrote thousands of reviews showing the younger generation the way to French existentialism and to the international avant-garde. In addition to novels and shorter fiction, he published in-depth philosophical essays on Kierkegaard, Sade and Sartre. His international network of artistic relations turned him into a central figure in the Flemish literary world, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of forty-five. Jan Walravens and the Experiment presents ten essays that chart the various aspects of Walravens' immense activity: his philosophical thinking on Sade, his relation with the visual arts, his position as an avant-gardist, his defense of poetry old and new, his view on the French nouveau roman, his novels, and his propagation of a new kind of literary diary. The authors have used the Walravens archive and unearthed some material that has never before been brought to the public's attention, most notably the facsimile of a 'cadavre exquis' Walravens created with Albert Bontridder and Florent Welles.

Jan Walravens en het experiment

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werken op het snijpunt

Gerrit Krol

Op 8 mei 2008 stierf Willem Brakman, 86 jaar oud en auteur van een indrukwekkend oeuvre. Hij publiceerde meer dan 40 romans, 6 verhalenbundels en 3 verzamelingen essays. Hij werd bekroond met de P.C. Hooftprijs 1981 en gold als een van de meest vernieuwende en virtuoze auteurs van zijn generatie. Veel over zijn werk moet nog gezegd worden. Het binnenste buiten werpt een nieuw licht op het werk en het leven van Willem Brakman. Een tiental specialisten buigt zich over het begin van Brakmans literaire carrière, zijn autobiografische blik, zijn spel met de romanruimte, zijn humor en parodieën. Naast Brakmans Den Haag verkent de lezer hier zijn ideologiekritiek en zijn verbeeldige taalhandelingen. Zelfs over de paus en porno biedt Het binnenste buiten nieuwe inzichten. Bovendien is er een interview met de auteur en wordt voor het eerst een deel van zijn onvoltooide laatste roman gepubliceerd. Ook de talrijke illustraties en fragmenten van manuscripten zorgen er voor dat de binnenwereld van Brakman in al zijn facetten naar buiten gebracht wordt. -- Provided by publisher.

werk en leven van Willem Brakman

Het binnenste buiten

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Ivo Michiels intermediaal

Bart Vervaeck

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