Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Chapter 1. Responding to style 1
5. Section I. Minds
6. Chapter 2. Interpretation in interaction 23
7. Chapter 3. Modelling an unethical mind 43
8. Chapter 4. Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception 61
9. Chapter 5. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction 81
10. Section II. Media
11. Chapter 6. “Why do you insist that Alana is not real?” 101
12. Chapter 7. Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction 123
13. Chapter 8. Evaluating news events 143
14. Section III. Methods
15. Chapter 9. In defence of introspection 165
16. Chapter 10. Reading the readers 179
17. Chapter 11. Extra-textuality and affective intensities 197
18. Chapter 12. Postscript 217
19. Index 231