Stockwell Peter. Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading

Reprint edition. — viii, 216 pages. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — ISBN: 978-0-7486-2581-9.Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the book describes the natural experience of literary reading in a thorough and principled way. Accessibly and informatively written, Texture draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. The aim is a new cognitive aesthetics of literature for its academic, student, professional and natural readers.Text, Textuality and Texture
Principles of cognitive poetics
Models and methods
The value of cognitive poetics
Texture
Reading
Resonance and Intensity
A model of resonant space
Literary objects in resonant spaces
Engagement, depth and distraction
Alertness, intensity and disposition
Resonant texture
Reading
Sensation and Empathy
Sense and sensation
A sense of richness
Experiential metaphors of reading
Sense and sensibility
Reading
Voice and Mind
The texture of edges
The prototypicality of character
Impersonation as embodiment
Edgework and transitioning
Voicing the mind
Reading
Identification and Resistance
The personality of the reader
Identity and mind-modelling
Identity and modification
Resistance and the nexus
The ethics of worlds
Reading
Texture and Meaning
Construal as a manner of making meaning
Profiling poetic texture
Discourse and dominion
Narrative pace and action chaining
Texture
Reading