Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature

AvMegan Mansworth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book develops a cognitive stylistic exploration of readers’ emotional experiences of literature.Adopting Possible Worlds Theory as a framework, the volume constructs a stylistic analysis of some of the ways in which novels elicit readers’ emotions. A typology of past, present, and future textual actual and possible worlds is formulated to frame analysis of three novels: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. The author integrates close stylistic analysis with the use of empirical data drawn from reader interviews and online reader reviews. The analysis of these diverse 20th-century novels works to show the utility of the typology for analysis formulated for this book, as well as to demonstrate the value of incorporating empirical reader data in analysis of the ways in which novels may affect readers’ emotions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:156 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt:1 020 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350428935

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Megan Mansworth is a Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK.

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Advancing and bringing cognitive stylistics, possible worlds theory, and empirical literary studies into dialogue, Possible Worlds Theory and Readers’ Emotional Responses to Literature offers innovative, compelling, and important contributions to our understanding of how fictional worlds are constructed as well as how readers cognitively process them.

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Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Possible Worlds Theory3. The Study of Readers’ Emotions4. A Temporally Framed Typology for the Stylistic Analysis of Textual Actual and Possible Worlds and Readers’ Emotions 5. Methodology6. Sadness, Sympathy and Hope: Counterfactual Textual Worlds in A Fine Balance7. Shock, Disapproval and Hopelessness: Future Textual Possible Worlds, Past Textual Actual Worlds and Past Textual Possible Worlds in A Fine Balance8. Dislike, Anger, Doubt and Discomfort: Counterfactual Textual Worlds and Future Textual Possible Worlds in Revolutionary Road9. Sympathy, Empathy and Sadness: Past Textual Actual Worlds and Past Textual Possible Worlds in Revolutionary Road 10. Empathy, Sympathy, Sadness and Claustrophobic Discomfort: The Current Textual Actual World in The Trick is to Keep Breathing11. Concern, Frustration, Hope and Happiness: Future Textual Possible Worlds in The Trick is to Keep Breathing 12. ConclusionReferencesIndex