Maximum Occupancy: A creative and critical exploration of
how Text World Theory can be used when writing literary
texts to communicate emotional experience

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Maximum Occupancy: A creative and critical exploration of how Text World Theory can be used when writing literary texts to communicate emotional experience

This thesis, consisting of a novel-length piece of creative writing, entitled Maximum Occupancy, and a critical research report, explores the extent to which an application of the cognitive poetics framework of Text World Theory during the creative writing process has an impact on the reader’s emoti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Justice, Steve
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	creative writing cognitive poetics Text World Theory emotional experience
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/65150/

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