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• Table of contents
• Cognitive poetics. A critical introduction
• Text worlds
• Cognitive approaches to narrative analysis
• Reflections on a cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation
• Minding: feeling, form, and meaning in the creation of poetic iconicity
• Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts
• Deconstructing verbal humour with Construction Grammar
• Judging distances: mental spaces, distance, and viewpoint in literary discourse
• Does an “ironic situation” favor an ironic interpretation?
• How cognitive is cognitive poetics? The interaction between symbolic and embodied cognition
• Epilogue. How (not) to advance toward the narrative mind
• Backmatter