CARACCIOLO, Marco, « The Reader's Virtual Body: Narrative Space and Its Reconstruction », dans //Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies//, vol. 3, 2011, p. 117-138. 

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This essay is concerned with __the reader’s imaginative projection into fictional worlds, and with the role of such projective acts in the reconstruction of narrative space__. The essay has three parts. In the first I investigate the fictionalization of the reader’s virtual body. By “fictionalization” I mean “actualization within the fictional world.” In particular I argue that some passages provide the reader with a fictionally actual body on which to ground his or her virtual body. In the second part I examine what happens when the reader’s virtual body is left to itself, without any fictional anchoring. Finally, in the conclusion I attempt to position all the cases considered on a scale of fictionalization.

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