Lars Bernaerts is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He teaches literary theory at the Free University of Brussels. Dirk De Geest is a professor of modern Dutch literature and literary theory at the KU Leuven. Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature at Ghent University. Together with Luc Herman, he is the author of Handbook of Narrative Analysis (Nebraska, 2005).

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Cognitive Narrative Studies: Themes and Variations Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck Part 1. Minding the Reader 1. Minding the Text: Memory for Literary Narrative Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon 2. Rhetorical Control of Readers' Attention: Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives on Foreground and Background in Narrative Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, and Marc Alexander 3. Partial Views and the Promise of More: Minimal Cues and Narrative Understanding in Anna Karenina Elaine Auyoung Part 2. Experiencing Minds 4. Blind Reading: Toward an Enactivist Theory of the Reader's Imagination Marco Caracciolo 5. The Words and Worlds of Literary Narrative: The Trade-off between Verbal Presence and Direct Presence in the Activity of Reading Anezka Kuzmicova 6. Cycles of Narrative Necessity: Suspect Tellers and the Textuality of Fictional Minds Maria Makela Part 3. Minds and Cultures 7. Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative Roy Sommer 8. Plot, Morality, and Folk Psychology Research Bart Keunen Afterword: Narrative and Mind: Directions for Inquiry David Herman Contributors Index

Lars Bernaerts is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He teaches literary theory at the Free University of Brussels. Dirk De Geest is a professor of modern Dutch literature and literary theory at the KU Leuven. Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature at Ghent University. Together with Luc Herman, he is the author of Handbook of Narrative Analysis (Nebraska, 2005).

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Cognitive Narrative Studies: Themes and Variations Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck Part 1. Minding the Reader 1. Minding the Text: Memory for Literary Narrative Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon 2. Rhetorical Control of Readers' Attention: Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives on Foreground and Background in Narrative Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, and Marc Alexander 3. Partial Views and the Promise of More: Minimal Cues and Narrative Understanding in Anna Karenina Elaine Auyoung Part 2. Experiencing Minds 4. Blind Reading: Toward an Enactivist Theory of the Reader's Imagination Marco Caracciolo 5. The Words and Worlds of Literary Narrative: The Trade-off between Verbal Presence and Direct Presence in the Activity of Reading Anezka Kuzmicova 6. Cycles of Narrative Necessity: Suspect Tellers and the Textuality of Fictional Minds Maria Makela Part 3. Minds and Cultures 7. Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative Roy Sommer 8. Plot, Morality, and Folk Psychology Research Bart Keunen Afterword: Narrative and Mind: Directions for Inquiry David Herman Contributors Index

Lars Bernaerts is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He teaches literary theory at the Free University of Brussels. Dirk De Geest is a professor of modern Dutch literature and literary theory at the KU Leuven. Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature at Ghent University. Together with Luc Herman, he is the author of Handbook of Narrative Analysis (Nebraska, 2005).

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Cognitive Narrative Studies: Themes and Variations Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck Part 1. Minding the Reader 1. Minding the Text: Memory for Literary Narrative Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon 2. Rhetorical Control of Readers' Attention: Psychological and Stylistic Perspectives on Foreground and Background in Narrative Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, and Marc Alexander 3. Partial Views and the Promise of More: Minimal Cues and Narrative Understanding in Anna Karenina Elaine Auyoung Part 2. Experiencing Minds 4. Blind Reading: Toward an Enactivist Theory of the Reader's Imagination Marco Caracciolo 5. The Words and Worlds of Literary Narrative: The Trade-off between Verbal Presence and Direct Presence in the Activity of Reading Anezka Kuzmicova 6. Cycles of Narrative Necessity: Suspect Tellers and the Textuality of Fictional Minds Maria Makela Part 3. Minds and Cultures 7. Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative Roy Sommer 8. Plot, Morality, and Folk Psychology Research Bart Keunen Afterword: Narrative and Mind: Directions for Inquiry David Herman Contributors Index