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- Central claim the field orbits around - The interplay of narrative structure and reader cognition determines literary meaning, not authorial intent alone. - 3-5 supporting pillars (well-established sub-claims) - Reader-response theory: meaning emerges from the reader's active construction, not passive decoding. - Narratology's formal toolkit: plot, focalization, and temporality are analyzable, cross-cultural structures. - Cognitive poetics: literary devices (metaphor, defamiliarization) map onto embodied mental processes. - Historical context shapes interpretive frameworks, but textual affordances constrain possible readings. - Empirical studies show measurable neural/behavioral responses to specific narrative techniques (e.g., suspense, irony). - 2-3 contested zones (active debates) - Does digital/hypertext narrative fundamentally alter cognitive processing, or merely extend print-era strategies? - Is there a universal narrative grammar, or are all "universals" Western-centric artifacts of translation? - Can computational text analysis (e.g., stylometry) produce valid literary insights, or does it reduce meaning to surface patterns? - 1-2 frontier questions (nobody's solved yet) - How do cross-modal narratives (e.g., graphic novels, film-adaptations) integrate distinct cognitive channels into a unified aesthetic experience? - Can we model the dynamic, real-time updating of reader predictions during narrative comprehension, including the role of emotional affect? - 3 papers a newcomer MUST read first and why - "The Reader in the Text" (Suleiman & Crosman, 1980) - Foundational anthology mapping reader-response's core debates and historical roots. - "Narrative Discourse" (Genette, 1980) - The definitive structuralist framework for analyzing time, mood, and voice; still the field's technical baseline. - "The Way We Think" (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) - Bridges cognitive science and literary theory via conceptual blending, essential for modern cognitive poetics.