The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach

246 Pages·2014·1.712 MB·English

by  Marco Caracciolo

Marco Caracciolo
The Experientiality of Narrative
Narratologia
Contributions to Narrative Theory
Edited by
Fotis Jannidis, Matías Martínez, John Pier,
Wolf Schmid (executive editor)
Editorial Board
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Manfred Jahn, Andreas Kablitz, Uri Margolin, Jan Christoph Meister, Ansgar
Nünning, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Michael Scheffel, Sabine
Schlickers, Jörg Schönert
Volume 43
Marco Caracciolo
The Experientiality
of Narrative
An Enactivist Approach
ISBN 978-3-11-027817-0
e-ISBN 978-3-11-036565-8
ISSN 1612-8427
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For Cécile

“Ofrati,”dissi“chepercentomilia
periglisietegiuntial’occidente,
aquestatantopicciolavigilia
d’inostrisensich’èdelrimanente
nonvogliatenegarl’esperïenza,
diretroalsol,delmondosanzagente.”
“Obrothers,”Isaid,“who,inthecourse
ofahundredthousandperils,atlast
havereachedthewest,tothebriefwakefulness
ofoursensesthatremainstous,
donotdenythechancetoexperience—
followingthesun—theworldwherenoonelives.”
DanteAlighieri,
Commedia,“Inferno,”CantoXXVI
Cognitivismcannotexplainfun.
EzequielA.DiPaolo,MariekeRohde,andHanneDeJaegher,
“HorizonsfortheEnactiveMind”

Acknowledgments
Publishing this book was quite an experience, but that is probably true of all
bookseverpublished(andmostofthoseunpublished).SoIwillsparemyreader
theexperientialdetails,onlymentioningmyreliefanddelightwhenthisproject
finallyfoundahomeintheNarratologiaseries.Icanonlyhopethatmyaccount
of narrative experientiality will be seen as living up to the high standards of
scholarship set by many other volumes in the series. I would like to thank the
serieseditors(andparticularlyWolfSchmid)andtheprojecteditoratDeGruyter,
StellaDiedrich,fortheirefficienthandlingofthismanuscript.Thanksalsogoto
twoexternalreviewersfortheirextremelyperceptivecommentsandsuggestions.
Manyreaders,colleagues,andfriendshaveleftamarkonthisbookoverthe
years.FortheirinvaluablefeedbackandstimulatingconversationIamespecially
gratefulto JanAlber, Porter Abbott, Lars Bernaerts, Marco Bernini, Federico Ber-
toni, Monika Fludernik, Luc Herman, Daniel Hutto, Manfred Jahn, Liesbeth Kor-
thalsAltes,KarinKukkonen,AnežkaKuzmičová,DonataMeneghelli,JimPhelan,
Marie-LaureRyan,RalfSchneider,andBartVervaeck—allofwhomhavereadand
helped improve thismanuscript (orpartsthereof). Iowe the largestdebtofgrat-
itudetoDavidHerman,whohasreadandcommentedoncountlessdraftsofthis
manuscript withunflinchinggenerosityand characteristicallykeen insight.
Idedicatethisbooktomywife,CécileGuédon,whohasshapedmythinking
in more ways than I can name or imagine.
Several chapters of this book originate from previously published papers.
Chapter4isbasedonanessayfirstpublishedinStoriesandMinds:CognitiveAp-
proachesto Literary Narrative,editedby Lars Bernaerts et al. (Lincoln and Lon-
don:UniversityofNebraskaPress,2013),81–106.Copyright2013bytheBoardof
RegentsoftheUniversityofNebraska.Chapter5containsmaterialfrom“Fiction-
alConsciousnesses:AReader’sManual,”Style46,no.1(2012):42–64.Chapter7
builds on“The Reader’s Virtual Body: Narrative Space and Its Reconstruction,”
Storyworlds3(2011):117–138.Inchapters2and7Iusepassagesfrom“Notesfor
A(nother) Theory of Experientiality,” Journal of Literary Theory 6, no. 1 (2012):
141–158. I would like to thank the editors of these essays and their respective
publishers forgranting me permission to draw on these materials.
Ibroughtthismanuscripttocompletionduringatwo-yearpost-doctoralfel-
lowshipattheUniversityofGroningen.IgratefullyacknowledgetheNetherlands
OrganizationforScientificResearch(NWO,grantnumber446-11-024)formaking
this possible.