7. Embodiment, Virtuality, and Meaning in Readers’ Reconstruction of Narrative Space

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments ix
3. Contents xi
4. 0. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Notes for a Theory of Experientiality
6. 1. Not So Easy: Representation, Experience, Expression 29
7. 2. The Existential Burn: Storytelling and the Background 45
8. 3. Experience, Interaction, and Play in Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch 72
9. Part II: From Experiential Traces to Fictional Consciousnesses
10. 4. Blind Reading: Bodily and Perceptual Responses to Narrative 93
11. 5. Fictional Consciousnesses: From Attribution to Enactment 110
12. 6. Fictional Consciousnesses: Self-Narratives and Intersubjectivity 133
13. Part III: Embodied Engagements and Their Effects
14. 7. Embodiment, Virtuality, and Meaning in Readers’ Reconstruction of Narrative Space 155
15. 8. Mental Myopia: Narrative Patterns and Experiential Texture in Vladimir Nabokov’s The Defense 181
16. 9. Conclusion: Where to Go from Here? 206
17. Works Cited 209
18. Index 227