Readerly Imagination
Readerly Imagination is a cognitive construct in literary studies denoting the reader's capacity to mentally simulate, interpret, and co-create narrative worlds through textual engagement, distinguished by its reliance on linguistic cues and intersubjective meaning-making within the act of reading.
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Ewa M. Thompson, M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist et al. · World Literature Today · 1981 · 9.8K citations
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Edward Wasiolek, M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist et al. · Comparative Literature · 1982 · 7.6K citations
Why we read fiction: theory of mind and the novel
Lisa Zunshine · Choice Reviews Online · 2006 · 1.2K citations · Full text
Humanities, Psychology, Fiction +8
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Milton Ehre, M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist et al. · Poetics Today · 1984 · 630 citations
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University of Oklahoma
Norman, United States
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4 publications
153 citations

University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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3 publications
50 citations
University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
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Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Clark University
Worcester, United States
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Barnardo's
London, United Kingdom
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
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Stanford University
Stanford, United States
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CRO · 21 publications · 2K citations
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