Narrative tension analysis: reader`s and text aspects
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https://doi.org/10.15587/2313-8416.2016.86083Keywords:
narrative tension, cognitive and affective, reader`s response, narrative structures, text absorption, narrative interestAbstract
In this article narrative tension is conceptualized as a complex cognitive and affective phenomenon being analysed in two dimensions: psychological and textological. In the receptive and psychological framework narrative tension is considered as reader`s psychological response to the fictional events of the storyworld. In modern text theory narrative tension is thought as a specific narrative strategy represented by definite narrative structures inducing the particular emotional state of the reader
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