Conceptualization of narrative absorption.

This book is relevant to scholars and students in all areas of the cognitive sciences, including literary studies and psychology.

This book is relevant to scholars and students in all areas of the cognitive sciences, including literary studies and psychology.

This book thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the problems that are at the heart of past and present debates over literary quality.

This book thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the problems that are at the heart of past and present debates over literary quality.

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature.

The book then turns its attention to sympathy, providing a comprehensive definition and considering the ways in which it operates in life and in literature.

" This book examines the dynamics of readers' beliefs regarding fictional characters and the influence of those impressions on the emotions that readers experience.

This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader’s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close.

Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse.