ABSTRACT
Several frameworks within cognitive poetics have been concerned with the most discursive end of the experience of reading, where the entire rich world of the text connects to the world in which the reader is situated. How readerly knowledge is framed, structured, and recalled for deployment has been the concern of schema and frame theories, as outlined in Chapter 7. The extended metaphors based on conceptual mappings, as discussed in Chapter 8, can also been seen as part of the mental architecture of readers’ overall engagement with literature. Conceptual integration, addressed in Chapter 9, is partly concerned with this global level of reading too. Some key questions remain. How do we know which parts of our total knowledge and experience are most relevant in a particular reading of a text? How is this knowledge arranged, monitored and sustained? What is its effect? How do we negotiate meaning and feeling between our reading and the text? How can we account for the sense that literary works are richer than the bare linguistic expressions with which they are comprised? How do readers build up relationships with literary texts?
