Aachen Lectures on Empirical and Cognitive Literary Studies

Mondays, 6-8pm at C.A.R.L. H 11

7. Mai	Catherine Emmott (Glasgow) Cognitive Manipulation and Crime Fiction: Rhetorical Strategies for Misdirecting Readers
14. Mai	Willie van Peer (Antwerpen/ München) Poetry as Supernormal
28. Mai	Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning (Gießen and Heidelberg) The Value of Literature for Mindfulness, Health and Wellbeing: Challenges, Concepts and Suggestions for Research in Cognitive and Empirical Approaches in Literary Studies
4. Juni	Joanna Gavins (Sheffield) Poetry in the Mind
11. Juni	Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) Big Data Tools for Research on Narrative and Blending
18. Juni	Julia Vaeßen (Aachen) Cultural Models and the Construction of Literary Character
25. Juni	Irene Mittelberg (Aachen) Immersion and Viewpoint in Descriptions of Imagined Spaces: Insights through Gesture and Eye-gaze Analysis
2. Juli	Ralph Radach (Wuppertal) Reading for Meaning: A Cognitive Framework for Development, Individual Performance and Impairment of Reading Skills
9. Juli	Jan-Noel Thon (Tübingen) Transmedial Narratology and the Analysis of Characters across Media
16. Juli	Elena Semino (Lancaster) Metaphor and Narrative in Health Communication

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