ABSTRACT
The chapter proposes a theoretical framework for how readers engage with narrative texts based on an enactivist theory and the notion of participatory sense-making as a further development of Tomasello’s notion of shared intentionality. It highlights the independent nature, termed interaction autonomy characterizing the co-constitution of meanings between readers and texts. This interactive autonomy is further elaborated in relation to the reader’s experience of temporal alignment with the unfolding of the narrated events, and the narrative emotions of curiosity, surprise, suspense, and trust that accompany acts of literary reading.
