Irene O'Leary

Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the dynamic processes that generate novel-reading. It introduces a process dynamics approach to reading novels and analyses The PowerBook, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Oryx and Crake in innovative terms of encounters among dynamic processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781032733340
• ISBN-10: 1032733349
• Artikelnr.: 72598538

Autorenporträt

Irene O'Leary is a literary scholar and teacher.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Theorising process dynamics
Process and change: process philosophy
Instability and reconfiguration: complexity theory
Dynamic co-creation: cognitive science of reading
Towards dynamic reading processes: cognition in literary studies
Key process dynamics concepts
3 Perturbations, style and microcognition
Grammar and microcognition: The.PowerBook
Characterisation and microcognition: Oryx and Crake
Humour and microcognition: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time
4 Morpharchy, narration, working memory and time
Narration, working memory and morpharchy
Fictional time, experienced time and morpharchy
5 Dispersal, allusions and memory
Literary allusions, neural activations and dispersal
Interdisciplinary allusions, memory and dispersal
6 Creativity, fiction and reading
Un/orthodoxy and attention: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time
Black novelties and association: Oryx and Crake
Storytelling and creativity: The.PowerBook
7 Conclusion
Index