Experiencing the Development of Intermental Thought into Intermental Mind in El Bab El Maftouh | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 5, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 2018, Pages 137-161 PDF (624.36 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.95957 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sarah Yehia Ali Ali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Characters’ minds in fiction are considered an applicable means for recognizing the way minds of real people function., This study employs the attribution theory, the cognitive narratological approach developed by Palmer (2004, 2007, 2010). This model proposes that our minds communicate through a minimal level of shared thoughts or what is called “intermental thought”. Via their shared thoughts and beliefs, characters can form certain types of units which could develop into minds. This study focuses on the issue of how characters are able to develop intermental minds with some characters but not with others. Thus, some extracts of Latifa Al- Zayyat’s El Bab El Maftouh (1960) are analysed in order to trace the distinction between the two cases. Moreover, this study considers the perspective of feminist narratology, which maintains that characters have the ability to form intermental minds when their thoughts, beliefs, emotions and dispositions are congruent. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| cognitive narratology; attribution theory; intermental thought; intermental mind; feminist narratology | ||
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