Lilla Farmasi is a Senior Assistant Professor at the English Department of the University of Szeged, Hungary. She earned her PhD in literature from the University of Szeged. Her research interests include narratology, (neuro)phenomenology of perception, cognitive science, and illness narratives.

Table of Contents

Part I.

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. Neuro-narratology

Chapter 2. Spatial perception, negative emotions, and narratives

Part II.

Chapter 3. "Sense perceptions and representation of consciousness in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'"

Chapter 4: "Storytelling with Tourette's Syndrome in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn"

Chapter 5. "Narrative Space and Motion(lessness) in 'The Ivory Acrobat'"

Part III.

Chapter 6. "Narrative experience as kinetosis for the reader: Spatial perception in The Body Artist"

Chapter 7. "Disorientation, dislocation, and disnarration in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves."

Chapter 8. Representation of Dissociation and Negative Emotions in Haruki Murakami's "Sleep"

Conclusion

Reference List

Index