Experiencing Narrative Worlds : On the Psychological Activities of Reading Sharon Salzberg Damian Loeb

Damian Loeb

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Experiencing Narrative Worlds : On the Psychological Activities of Reading Sharon Salzberg Damian LoebWhat does it mean to be transported by a narrativeto create a world inside one's head? How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book Richard Gerrig integrates insights from cognitive psychology and from research in linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to provide a cohesive account of what have most often been treated as isolated aspects of narrative experience. Drawing on examples from Tolstoi