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| | Narratology as a cognitive science by David Herman |
 | | Hence a narrator-protagonist like Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (Defoe 1981) spends as much time attributing mental states and dispositions to acquaintances, lovers, spouses, shopkeepers, constables, and fellow thieves as she does recording her own reactions, anticipations, emotions, and beliefs. |
 | | As Gelman writes: "Like the visual system, by Fodor's analysis, modules are innately specified, [with] their representational outputs [remaining] insensitive to revision via experience. |
 | | By the same token, and like Jahn's cognitive frames, storyworlds-or models for understanding narrative discourse in particular-function in both a top-down and a bottom-up way during narrative comprehension. |
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