Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. An American tale of vampires: Narrative identity projections in anorexia 19
6. Making choices in the storyworld: User agency in digital interactive narratives 37
7. Storyworld possible selves and doubly deictic you in contemporary narratives negotiating motherhood 49
8. The power of perception: The influence of fictionality on the creation of storyworld possible selves 65
9. Exploring storyworld possible selves with pre-service teachers: Effects on reading attitudes and planned practices 87
10. An empirical study of fictional abuse narratives and prosocial reader outcomes using storyworld possible selves 103
11. Multiple perspectives in the novel and storyworld possible selves: An alternative approach to narrative engagement 133
12. Projected mediacy and rendered mediacy in Henry James’s notebooks: A cognitive perspective 153
13. Character focalization and forms of speech representation: Embedded dialogue 175
14. Character construction and Speech Act theory: A cognitive-pragmatic approach to Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s utterances in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 189
15. Cognitive narrative thematics: The form of content 211
16. Contributors
17. Index