Alison Gibbons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Gibbons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbons |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBONS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8912-9350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction
Autofiction is a genre in which the author appears as a character, the nonfiction of their autobiographical life combining with the fiction of invention and fabrication. Critical discussions of autofiction are dominated by arguments concerning its dual narrative structure evoking a duet of imaginative visions which, in turn, requires reading strategies that shift between fact and fiction. These critical intuitions are perceptive, yet they remain …
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag
This article examines direct address, or ‘breaking the fourth wall’, in the BBC TV series Fleabag. It applies Text World Theory to telecinematic discourse for the first time and, in doing so, contributes to developing cognitive approaches in the field of telecinematic stylistics. Text World Theory, originally a cognitive linguistic discourse processing framework, is used to examine how multimodal cues contribute to the creation of imagined worlds…
Real fictions
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The “dissolving margins” of Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels
Using Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels as case study, this article presents a cognitive approach to fictionality and authorial intention using Text World Theory and Mind-Modelling. It investigates two forms of ontological distortion: readers’ (mis)classification of the novels’ genre (as autofiction or autobiography) and the problem posed by the author’s pseudonymic identity. The analysis has three parts: first, I conduct a Text World analysis o…
Nurturing Life Writing in Egypt after the Arab Spring
While autobiography has a long tradition in the Arab world, with roots in medieval texts, it appears to have entered the literary sphere most prominently during the Nahda, a period beginning in the
Using Life and abusing life in the trial of Ahmed Naji
This article undertakes a cognitive stylistic investigation of the trial of Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, who was prosecuted - and subsequently imprisoned - for ‘disturbing public morals’ by depicting sexual content in his novel Istikhdam al-Hayat [Using Life] (2014). The article presents a schematic model of the narrative roles, across narrative levels and text-world ontologies, mind-modelled by readers in literary experiences. This model forms th…
Entropology and the end of nature in Lance Olsen's Theories of Forgetting
In Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss coins the term 'entropology', a lexical blend of 'entropy' and 'anthropology' signifying that the study of humankind is always, necessarily, the study of humankind's transformative (disruptive, corrosive) impact. This article traces entropology as an aesthetic practice through Robert Smithson's Earthwork, particularly the Spiral Jetty, and into twenty-first century ecoliterature. At the heart of the article is a…
Multimodal metaphors in contemporary experimental literature
Multimodal metaphor studies has hitherto neglected one key arena in the creative arts: literature. This article explores four case studies of multimodal metaphor within contemporary experimental literature. In poetry, the metaphor EMOTIONS ARE OBJECTS is discussed within Anne Carson’s (2009) accordion ‘poem in a box’, in which the poet struggles with the death of her brother; in literature, Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell’s (1996) fold-out fic…
The Routledge companion to experimental literature
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental L…
Real fictions
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A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction
Autofiction is a genre in which the author appears as a character, the nonfiction of their autobiographical life combining with the fiction of invention and fabrication. Critical discussions of autofiction are dominated by arguments concerning its dual narrative structure evoking a duet of imaginative visions which, in turn, requires reading strategies that shift between fact and fiction. These critical intuitions are perceptive, yet they remain …
Entropology and the end of nature in Lance Olsen's Theories of Forgetting
In Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss coins the term 'entropology', a lexical blend of 'entropy' and 'anthropology' signifying that the study of humankind is always, necessarily, the study of humankind's transformative (disruptive, corrosive) impact. This article traces entropology as an aesthetic practice through Robert Smithson's Earthwork, particularly the Spiral Jetty, and into twenty-first century ecoliterature. At the heart of the article is a…
The Routledge companion to experimental literature
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental L…
Multimodal metaphors in contemporary experimental literature
Multimodal metaphor studies has hitherto neglected one key arena in the creative arts: literature. This article explores four case studies of multimodal metaphor within contemporary experimental literature. In poetry, the metaphor EMOTIONS ARE OBJECTS is discussed within Anne Carson’s (2009) accordion ‘poem in a box’, in which the poet struggles with the death of her brother; in literature, Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell’s (1996) fold-out fic…
Real fictions
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The “dissolving margins” of Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels
Using Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels as case study, this article presents a cognitive approach to fictionality and authorial intention using Text World Theory and Mind-Modelling. It investigates two forms of ontological distortion: readers’ (mis)classification of the novels’ genre (as autofiction or autobiography) and the problem posed by the author’s pseudonymic identity. The analysis has three parts: first, I conduct a Text World analysis o…
Nurturing Life Writing in Egypt after the Arab Spring
While autobiography has a long tradition in the Arab world, with roots in medieval texts, it appears to have entered the literary sphere most prominently during the Nahda, a period beginning in the
Using Life and abusing life in the trial of Ahmed Naji
This article undertakes a cognitive stylistic investigation of the trial of Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, who was prosecuted - and subsequently imprisoned - for ‘disturbing public morals’ by depicting sexual content in his novel Istikhdam al-Hayat [Using Life] (2014). The article presents a schematic model of the narrative roles, across narrative levels and text-world ontologies, mind-modelled by readers in literary experiences. This model forms th…
Entropology and the end of nature in Lance Olsen's Theories of Forgetting
In Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss coins the term 'entropology', a lexical blend of 'entropy' and 'anthropology' signifying that the study of humankind is always, necessarily, the study of humankind's transformative (disruptive, corrosive) impact. This article traces entropology as an aesthetic practice through Robert Smithson's Earthwork, particularly the Spiral Jetty, and into twenty-first century ecoliterature. At the heart of the article is a…
Do worlds have (fourth) walls? A Text World Theory approach to direct address in Fleabag
This article examines direct address, or ‘breaking the fourth wall’, in the BBC TV series Fleabag. It applies Text World Theory to telecinematic discourse for the first time and, in doing so, contributes to developing cognitive approaches in the field of telecinematic stylistics. Text World Theory, originally a cognitive linguistic discourse processing framework, is used to examine how multimodal cues contribute to the creation of imagined worlds…
A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction
Autofiction is a genre in which the author appears as a character, the nonfiction of their autobiographical life combining with the fiction of invention and fabrication. Critical discussions of autofiction are dominated by arguments concerning its dual narrative structure evoking a duet of imaginative visions which, in turn, requires reading strategies that shift between fact and fiction. These critical intuitions are perceptive, yet they remain …
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (4 works)