Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction : Consciousness and the Presentation of Character in Amsterdam, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbrevations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Reading McEwan as a Cognitive Novelist -- 1.2 Mind Representation in Amsterdam, Atonement and On Chesil Beach and the Aim of this Study -- 2. Cognitive Narratology and Consciousness (Re)Presentation -- 2.1 Cognitive Narratology and Narrative Experience -- 2.1.1 Fictional Minds and Cognitive Reader -- 2.2 Alan Palmer's Approach to Fictional Minds -- 2.2.1 (Doubly) Embedded Narratives -- 2.2.2 Fictional Minds and Theory of Intermental / Intramental Thought -- 2.2.3 Modes for Presenting Fictional Minds (Consciousness) in Fiction -- 2.3 David Herman's Approach to Narrative and Narrativity -- 2.3.1 What It's Like or Qualia -- 3. Amsterdam -- 3.1 Intramental Characterization and Consciousness Presentation: AM -- 3.2 The Passage from Intermental to Intramenal Minds: Clive Linely's and Vernon Halliday's (Doubly) Embedded Narratives -- 3.3 The (Im)Balance between Intermental and Intramental Thoughts: Representation of the Impact of Narrative Events and Situations on Clive Linely's Mind -- 3.4 The Egocentricism and Intermentality: Representation of the Impact of (Intentional) Intramentality on Vernon Haliday's Thoughts and Actions -- 4. Atonement -- 4.1 An Intramental Thought against Intermental Minds: AT -- 4.2 Briony Tallis's Intramental Mind and the Order of the Real World -- 4.3 In Search of Love: Constructin of an Interminal Mind between Cecilia and Robbie -- 4.4 The Destructive Impact of Briony's Intramental Thoughts on the Emerging Intermental Bond between Cecilia and Robbie -- 5. On Chesil Beach -- 5.1 A Narrative of Unfortunate Misreadings: CB -- 5.2 The Imbalance in the Intermental Unit between Edward and Florence -- 5.3 What It's Like to »Love, and Set Each Other Free«: Florence Ponting's Passage from Intermentality to Intramentality.

5.4 The Question of Aspectuality in the Embedded Narratives: Edward Mayhew -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Bibliography.

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