Experiencing Narrative Worlds : On the Psychological Activities of Reading Berenice Oey Alan Marlatt

Alan Marlatt

Of Mice and Men is the dramatic adaptation of one of Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved works

in a world that is becoming increasingly more 'invisible' and moving at a high rate of speed

her husband to be

Experiencing Narrative Worlds : On the Psychological Activities of Reading Berenice Oey Alan MarlattWhat does it mean to be transported by a narrativeto create a world inside one's head? How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book Richard Gerrig integrates insights from cognitive psychology and from research in linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to provide a cohesive account of what have most often been treated as isolated aspects of narrative experience. Drawing on examples from Tolstoi