Age, Culture, Humanities

Cognitive Narratology and the ‘4Es’

Age, Culture, Humanities August 7, 2023 Emma-Louise Silva

This essay demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a lens based on 4E-inspired cognitive narratology to David Almond’s My Name is Mina (2010) in order to illuminate how the so-called cognitive-affective imbalance between children and adults needs reassessing, especially when it comes to memory. Merging recent developments in 4E – or embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive – approaches to...