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- Title
Placing Readers: Diverse Routes to the Cognitive Challenge of Fictional World-Building.
- Authors
Mackey, Margaret
- Abstract
Two young men create a personal digital map of a site important to their literate youth. They are demographically similar and each regards the Harry Potter series as an important childhood text. Yet their mental approach to fictional world-building is very different. One places a high priority on life experience (explorations in a nearby ravine) and applies those sensations in relatively unarticulated ways to his reading. The other starts with the words and mentally builds a detailed interior world that is as accurate as careful reading can make it. Cognitive diversity deserves recognition as much as other kinds of difference.
- Subjects
AUTHOR-reader relationships; AUTHORSHIP; FICTION; BOOKS &; reading; READING interests of children
- Publication
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
0885-0429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/chq.2019.0048