Ambiguity, multi-stable storyworlds, and storyworld possible selves in Rosemary Timperley's ghost story "Harry"

  1. María-Ángeles Martínez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

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Revista:
Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic

ISSN: 2014-7910

Año de publicación: 2022

Título del ejemplar: Relato fantástico y cognición

Volumen: 10

Número: 2

Páginas: 47-71

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5565/REV/BRUMAL.894 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDDD editor

Otras publicaciones en: Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic

Resumen

El presente estudio analiza el relato de fantasmas «Harry» (Timperley, 1955) dentro de los paradigmas de la cognición corporeizada (Gallese, 2005, 2017), la ambigüedad cognitiva (Zeki, 2006), y la teoría de autoesquemas possibles de ficción (Martínez, 2014, 2018). El objetivo es averiguar qué autoesquemas posibles de ficción, o «imágenes de uno mismo en universos de ficción» (Martínez, 2014: 119) es probable que proyecten los lectores, y explorar la interacción de estos autoesquemas con la ambigüedad que caracteriza las narraciones de fantasmas. El análisis sugiere que en «Harry» la ambigüedad (Zeki, 2006) orienta la construcción mental de dos universos de ficción, alternativos e igualmente ciertos, que denomino universos multi-estables de ficción, y que se relacionan, respectivamente, con construcciones de signficado siniestras y racionales. Los autoesquemas posibles de ficción que se proyectan en estos escenarios mentales del universo de ficción parecen estar predominantemente relacionados con respuestas emocionales relativas al miedo, las relaciones familiares, y a percepciones éticas de justicia social.

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