Publications

 

Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel

Copyright: © WVT

ACCELS and the Department for English, American and Romance Studies are proud to present a new, innovative contribution to the field of cognitive narratology.

The edited volume Introduction to Cognitive Narratology includes chapters on different aspects of narratology and explains them from the perspective of cognitive literary studies. The introduction entails overviews of e.g. plot, narrative situations, unreliable narration and an introductory chapter in which crucial concepts for explicating the reading process and reception are explained. All contributions close with research questions and impulses for empirical research.

Contributions:

1. Alber, Jan. "What is Cognitive Narratology?"
2. Strasen, Sven. "Cognitive Approaches to Narrative -- Mapping the Field"
3. Vaeßen, Julia. "Characters -- a Cognitive Perspective"
4. Eckenhoff, Judith, and Kai Tan. "Space"
5. Schneider, Ralf. "Time and the Experience of Narrative"
6. de Muijnck, Deborah, Francesca Wessing, Nalin Camur, and Linda Wetzel. "Plot"
7. Wenzel, Peter. "Narrative Situations"
8. Jumpertz, Jessica, and Franziska von Meer. "Unreliable Narration from a Cognitive-Narratological Perspective"
9. Alber, Jan, and Clarissa von Meer. "Cognitive Challenges: Difficult Narratives"

Further information on the edited volume can be found here.

 

Focus on Empirical Approaches to Narrative. Focus Editors: Jan Alber and Sven Strasen

Copyright: © Anglistik - International Journal of English Studies

ACCELS and the Institute for English, American and Romance Studies is proud to announce a valuable contribution to the publication landscape. Prof. Dr. Jan Alber, Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies, and apl. Prof Sven Strasen, Chair of British Literary Studies, are the Focus Editors of the latest issue of the nationally and internationally renowned journal Anglistik. Volume 31, Issue 1 (2020) shines with outstanding content, innovative questions and renowned contributors. In addition to the editorial and content achievements of Prof. Alber and Prof. Strasen, Caroline Kutsch and Jessica Jumpertz, research assistants at both chairs, contribute with their rspective articles to the strength of this special edition.

Issue 1 (2020) focuses on empirical approaches in narrative research and presents the latest findings in empirical and cognitive narratology. The journal Anglistik contains scholarly articles covering the entire spectrum of English Studies, from linguistics and literary studies to subject didactics. A particular concern of the journal is the introduction to innovative questions and new developments in the individual academic fields of the subject. New publications from all areas of English Studies are presented in concise reviews.

Anglistik is the scientific organ of the German Anglists Association and is published three times a year (Spring, Summer, Winter). Since issue 23.1 (Spring 2012) English Studies is available free of charge as an open access online journal.

Focus on Empirical Approaches to Narrative. Focus Editors: Jan Alber and Sven Strasen

Contributions:

Empirical Literary Studies: An Introduction
Jan Alber, Sven Strasen

The Effects of Free Indirect Style in George Eliot's ‘Middlemarch’. A Reader Response Study
Paul Sopcak, Don Kuiken, David S. Miall

“It's Fun Escaping into a Different World and Having Your Own Experiences”: A Qualitative Interview Study on the Dimensions of Experientiality During Reading
Caroline Kutsch

Capturing the Ways We Read: Introducing the Reading Habits Questionnaire
Moniek M. Kuijpers, Shawn Douglas, Don Kuiken

Interpreting (Autistic?) Mind Style: Categorisation and Narrative Interrelation in Reading Group Discussions of ‘The Universe Versus Alex Woods’
Sara Whiteley

Finding Meaning Through Literature: ‘Foregrounding’ as an Emergent Effect
Frank Hakemulder

An Empirical Study of Readers’ Identification with a Narrator
Jessica Jumpertz, Wiebke Tary

Expecting the Unexpected?: Predictive Coding, Pattern Recognition, and Surprise in Narratives
Pia Börgerding, Marie-Christine Benen, Alexander Bergs

Imagining Differently: Relationships between Reading and Gaming Habits, Mental Imagery Construction, and Perspective-Taking When Processing a Fictional Narrative Scene
Andrea Macrae

Feminist Revisions of the Sonnet in the Works of Patience Agbabi and Sophie Hannah
Wieland Schwanebeck

“All Distress is Food-Related”: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s ‘The Road to Wellville’ (1993)
Peter Freese

Reviews
Eva Ulrike Pirker, Noah Riseman, Anja Höing, Uta Woiwod

 

Further Publications

 

Deborah de Muijnck, M.A.

• de Muijnck, Deborah, Francesca Wessing, Nalin Camur, and Linda Wetzel. "Plot." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 119-142.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Deborah de Muijnck. "Methods of Reception Theory and Cognitive Approaches - From Reception Aesthetics to Cognitive Poetics." Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 251-72.
• de Muijnck, Deborah. "Review: Lena Linne. Unlived Lives in English Literature. A Typological Study. " Anglia vol. 138, no. 4, 2020.
• de Muijnck, Deborah. "When Breath Becomes Air: Constructing Stable Narrative Identity During Terminal Illness". Narrative, special issue of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, edited by Calvin Fung and Giulia Mastrantoni. Vol. 38, 2019.

 

Judith Eckenhoff, M.A.

• Eckenhoff, Judith and Kai Tan. "Space." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 65-94.

 

Dipl. Gyml. Caroline Kutsch

• Alber, Jan, Caroline Kutsch, and Sven Strasen. "Empirical Methods in Literary Studies." Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 273-96.
• Kutsch, Caroline. "'It's Fun Escaping into a Different World and Having Your Own Experiences': A Qualitative Interview Study on the Dimensions of Experientiality During Reading." Focus on Empirical Approaches to Narrative, special issue of Anglistik, vol. 31, no.1, 2020, pp. 31-51.
• Kutsch, Caroline, and Sven Strasen. “Models of Experientiality: Or, When Russian Formalism Meets Embodied Cognition and Empirical Literary Studies.” Modelle in der Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihrer Didaktik/Models in Literary Studies and Linguistics. Festschrift für Peter Wenzel, edited by Sven Strasen and Julia Vaeßen. Trier: WVT, 2019, pp. 55-80.

 

Jessica Jumpertz, M.A.

• Jumpertz, Jessica and Franziska von Meer. "Unreliable Narration from a Cognitive-Narratological Perspective." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlg Trier, 2021, pp. 169-190.
• Alber, Jan, Jessica Jumpertz, and Axel Mayer. "How Professional Readers Process Unnatural Narrators: An Empirical Perspective." Scientific Study of Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 193-214.

 

Prof. Dr. Ralf Schneider

• Schneider, Ralf. "Potential and Actual Cognitive-Emotional Engagement with Characters: A Response to Michael Whitenton and Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser." Cognitive Linguistics and New Testament Narrative: Investigating Methodology through Characterization, special issue of Biblical Interpretation , edited by Jan Rüggemeier and Elizabeth E. Shively, vol. 29, no. 4-5, 2021, pp. 530-550.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Iconographies of 'Childness' and the Contemporary British Novel: Book Covers, Discourses, and Cultural Models." Anglia, vol. 139, no. 4, 2021, pp. 710-738.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Time and the Experience of Narrative." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 95-117.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Deborah de Muijnck. "Methods of Reception Theory and Cognitive Approaches - From Reception Aesthetics to Cognitive Poetics." Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 251-72.
• Schneider, Ralf, Marcus Hartner, and Anne Lappert. "Looking for Textual Evidence: Digital Humanities, Middling-Class Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel." Digital Methods in the Humanities: Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives, edited by Silke Schwand, Bielefeld University Press (Imprint of transcript), 2020, pp. 239-268
• Missinne, Lut, Ralf Schneider, and Beatrix Theresa van Dam (eds.) Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2020.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Is there a Future for Neuro-Narratology?" Emerging Vectors of Narratology, edited by John Pier and Philippe Roussin. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 479-497.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Kognitivistische Narratologie." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Erzählen, edited by Martin Huber and Wolf Schmid. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 580-596.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Interpretationsschemata und Rezeptionsprozess: Anmerkungen zum Interpretieren aus Sicht einer kognitiven Rezeptionstheorie." Literatur interpretieren: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis, edited by Jan Borowski, Stefan Descher, Felicitas Ferder, and Philipp David Heine. Münster: Mentis, 2015, pp. 251-276.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Marcus Hartner. "The Cognitive Theory of Literary Genres Revisited: Cues from Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration." Linguistics & Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers, edited by Daniel Jacob and Monika Fludernik. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 383-401.
• Schneider, Ralf. "The Cognitive Theory of Character Reception: An Updated Proposal." Focus on Reception and Reader Response, special issue of Anglistik, edited by Renate Brosch, vol. 24, no. 2, 2013, pp. 117-134.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Making Sense: Ziele, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer kognitiven Rezeptionstheorie.“ Konstruktionsgeschichten: Narrationsbezogene Ansätze in der Religionsforschung, edited by Gabriela Brahier and Dirk Johannsen. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2013, pp. 37-53.
• Schneider, Ralf. "New Narrative Dynamics? How the Order of a Text and the Reader’s Cognition and Emotion Create its Meanings." New Narratologies: Recent Developments and New Directions, special issue of Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, edited by Ansgar Nünning, vol. 63, no.1, 2013, pp. 47-67.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Marcus Hartner (eds). Blending and the Study of Narrative: Approaches and Applications. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2012.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Blending and the Study of Narrative: An Introduction." Blending and the Study of Narrative. Approaches and Applications, edited by Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 1-30.
• Schneider, Ralf, Jens Eder, and Fotis Jannidis (eds.) Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2010.
• Schneider, Ralf, Jens Eder, and Fotis Jannidis. "Understanding Characters in Fictional Worlds: An Introduction." Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media, edited by Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis, and Ralf Schneider. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2010, pp. 3-64.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Methoden Rezeptionstheoretischer und Kognitionswissenschaftlicher Ansätze." Methoden der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlichen Textanalyse, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010, pp. 91-108.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Metaphor." Bielefeld Introduction to Applied Linguistics, edited by Stephan Gramley and Vivian Gramley. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2008, pp. 243-253.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Monika Fludernik. "Cognitive Approaches in Literature and Linguistics." Anglistentag 2007 Münster. Proceedings, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Trier: WVT, 2008, pp. 181-190. (Section edited: pp. 181-276.)
• Schneider, Ralf. "Literary Childhoods and the Blending of Conceptual Spaces: Transdifference and the Other in Ourselves." Theorizing Difference and Transdifference, special issue of Journal for the Study of British Cultures, edited by Doris Feldmann, Ina Habermann, and Dunja Mohr, vol. 13, no. 2, 2006, pp. 147-160.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Emotion and Narrative", "Reader Constructs", "Reader Response Theory", and "Reception Theory". The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London, New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 136-137, 483-484, 484-486, 492-493.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Hypertext Narrative and the Reader: A View from Cognitive Theory." The Cognitive Turn: Papers in Cognitive Literary Studies, special issue of European Journal of English Studies, edited by Michael Toolan and Jean-Jacques Weber, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005, pp. 197-208.
• Schneider, Ralf, and Craig A. Hamilton. "From Iser to Turner and Beyond: Reception Theory Meets Cognitive Criticism." Style, vol. 36, no. 4, 2002, pp. 640-658.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Literary Character: The Dynamics of Mental-Model Construction." Style, vol. 35, no. 4, 2001, pp. 607-640.
• Schneider, Ralf. Grundriß zur kognitiven Theorie der Figurenrezeption am Beispiel des Viktorianischen Romans. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000.
• Schneider, Ralf. "Pour une Théorie Cognitive du Personnage Littéraire: La Dynamique de Construction d'un Modèle Mentale." Translated by Aline Jarousse. TLE – Theorie, Littérature, Enseignement, vol. 17, 1999, pp. 87-113.

 

Apl. Prof. Dr. Sven Strasen

• Strasen, Sven. "Cognitive Approaches to Narrative -- Mapping the Field." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 21-42.
• Alber, Jan, Caroline Kutsch, and Sven Strasen. "Empirical Methods in Literary Studies." Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 273-96.
• Strasen, Sven. "Fiktionalität und Leseprozesse." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität, edited by Lut Missinne, Ralf Schneider, and Beatrix Theresa van Dam. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, pp. 297-323.
• Strasen, Sven, and Julia Vaeßen. "A Cognitive and Cultural Reader Response Theory of Character Construction." Style and Response: Minds Media Methods, edited by Alice Bell et al., Benjamins, in print.
• Kutsch, Caroline, and Sven Strasen. “Models of Experientiality: Or, When Russian Formalism Meets Embodied Cognition and Empirical Literary Studies.” Modelle in der Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihrer Didaktik/Models in Literary Studies and Linguistics, edited by Sven Strasen and Julia Vaeßen. Trier: WVT, 2019, pp. 55-80.
• Strasen, Sven. "Literaturwissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung. Auf dem Weg von der Produkt- zur Prozessästhetik." Der Deutschunterricht, vol. 3, 2017, pp. 19-27.
• Strasen, Sven. Rezeptionstheorien: Literatur-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und Kulturelle Modelle. Trier: WVT, 2008.

 

Kai Tan, M.A.

• Eckenhoff, Judith and Kai Tan. "Space." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 65-94.