Title: The text and the story: Levels of blending in fictional narratives
Abstract: The paper investigates applications of the mental spaces approach to the study of narrative discourse. It is postulated that fiction narratives are structured as blends, emerging out of a number of major narrative constructs called narrative spaces, with their rich topology and specific structure. It is argued further that two mechanisms are responsible for emergent story structure: narrative anchors and cross-input projections. The former are narrative equivalents of space builders, while the latter account for the constant enrichment of narrative spaces as a result of emerging cross-space links. Finally, narrative viewpoint is defined as a feature of space topology, rather than of a specific 'consciousness' The paper argues further that blending opens new perspectives in narratological research.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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