ABSTRACT
The Conclusion briefly summarizes the aims of this book and the most important views about neuro-narratology. The aim is to begin to address a formal aspect of narratives, namely, to trace how processes of certain perceptions take part in the construction and interpretation of storyworlds, which is strongly connected to the question of how meaning is constructed. It seems that formal characteristics of narratives are organized by structures that emerge from lower levels of cognition and, therefore, potentially connect subjective experience to mechanisms in the brain. I focused on (nonvisual) spatial experience. The literary analyses of the book trace the ways narrators' or focalizor characters’ embodied subjective experiences of space and motion contribute to the construction and, therefore, the effect of the narratives. This way, with the help of the theories and findings of cognitive and neuroscience, we can consider new perspectives in the reader's experience. Besides summarizing my most important theoretical views, I also discuss the significance and the use of reading neuronarratives as well as other narratives that are rich in representations of negative emotions.
