{"product_id":"picturing-fiction-through-embodied-cognition-9781032125916","title":"Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental vision, employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler's seminal work on deixis and point of view to test whether or not this theory can fully account for what readers see in their mind''s eye and how they see it. The work draws on findings from a study of English and Dutch across a range of literary texts, in which participants read literary text fragments and were then asked to immediately draw representations of what they had seen envisioned. Building on the work of Fowler and more recent theoretical and empirical language-based studies in the area, Klomberg, Schilhab, and Burke argue that models from embodied cognitive science can help account for anomalies in evid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Theoretical Framework\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Embodied Cognition and Point of View\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Discussion and Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018853613911,"sku":"9781032125916","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picturing-fiction-through-embodied-cognition-9781032125916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}