Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Jan Alber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. xi+310.

2017 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. E73-E75
Author(s):  
Thomas Pavel
Keyword(s):  
Impossible Worlds ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Lincoln University

Reading Strategies and Impossible Worlds in Fiction: With Reference to Lincoln in the Bardo

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-327
Author(s):  
Roghayeh Farsi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Impossible Worlds ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Cognitive Operation ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Unnatural Narrative ◽  
Experimental Novel

AbstractPostmodern fiction is marked by impossible worlds, the appreciation of which challenges readers and draws upon different cognitive operations. The present study reacts to the reading strategies proposed by Alber, J. 2016. Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Lincoln, NB and London: University of Nebraska Press. It adopts and adapts these strategies in a case study of Saunders’s experimental novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017). There is an attempt to investigate the cognitive operations that are activated in the process of communicating with and understanding such texts. The study evinces the pros and cons of Alber’s reading strategies. It proposes the cognitive operation of schematization in both online and offline forms as another reading strategy which helps readers understand impossibilities in texts.

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