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Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE; 1 A basis for analysis:schema theory, its general principles, history and terminology;Introduction; Schema theory: general principles; Examples demonstratingschemata in discourse processing; Evidence for schemata; World schemataand text schemata; The origins of schema theory; Bartlett'sRemembering; The eclipse of schema theory; The revival of schematheory; The terminology of schema theory; Notes; 2 A first bearing:discourse analysis and its limitations; Introduction; 'Text','context', and 'discourse'; Acceptability above the sentence; Cohesion;The omission fallacy; Meaning as encoding/decoding versus meaning asconstruction; Pragmatic approaches and their capacity to characterize'literariness'; Macro-functions; Discourse structure; Discourse asprocess (and literature as conversation); Discourse as dialogue; The'post-scientific' approach; Conclusion; Notes; 3 A second bearing: AItext theory and its limitations; Introduction; The computational andbrain paradigms of language; The constructivist principle; One systemof conceptual construction: conceptual dependency theory (CD); Problemsfor conceptual constructions; A complex AI schema theory; Conclusion;Notes; 4 Testing the AI approach. Two analyses: a 'literary' and a'non-literary' text; Introduction; Text One: the opening of Crime andPunishment (translation); Text Two: 'Every cloud has a Silver Lining'(advertisement); Conclusions from analyses; Notes; 5 A third bearing:literary theories from formalism to stylistics; Introduction; The riseof 'modern literary theory'; Theories of pattern and deviation; Theformalist theory of defamiliarization; Patterns in discourse:structures and structuralism; Roman Jakobson's poetics; Conclusion;Notes; 6 Incorporating the reader: two analyses combining stylisticsand schema theory; Introduction; Text Three: 'Elizabeth Taylor'sPassion' (advertisement); Text Four: 'First World War Poets' (poem);Incorporating the reader; Notes; PART TWO; 7 A theory of discoursedeviation: schema refreshment and cognitive change; Introduction: theargument so far; The need for schema change; Prelude to the theory:earlier accounts of schema change; A theory of literary discourse:schema refreshment and cognitive change; A theory of literarydiscourse: discourse deviation; Defamiliarization revisited; Notes; 8Application of the theory: discourse deviation in three literary texts;Introduction; Text Five: 'The Tyger'; Text Six: The Turn of the Screw;Text Seven: 'The Windhover'; Conclusion; Notes; 9 What the theory meansfor literature teaching; Appendix A: Grammatical notation: symbols andabbreviations; Appendix B: Conceptual dependency (CD) and semantics;Bibliography; Index