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Wizualne efekty i afekty. Obrazowanie mentalne a emocjonalne zaangażowanie czytelnika
Effects and Affects: Mental Imaging vs. Reader’s Emotional Involvement

Author(s): Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Cognitive studies; Mental imagining; Reader Response.

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of the relation between mental imagining and reader’s emotional engagement in fiction. It examines how reader’s visualization can order and provoke intense emotional response to fictional events and people. Presented is the reader’s ability to build mental images as an important part of cognitive processes connected with reading.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 120-134
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish