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In cognitive poetics, theories have been proposed to account for the construction of fictional worlds and characters mental spaces. In relation of narrative worlds, it is postulated that in a narrative there is an actual world and a number of possible worlds or sub-worlds that have to do with characters feelings, plans, wishes, assumptions and knowledge. As to spaces, a number of mental spaces are proposed that work to develop the narrative event and furnish the narrative world. In this research, these theories are blended and applied to Joyce s Araby. Results crop up to affirm the story s heavy reliance on the major character s sub- worlds which are marked by their epistemic, hypothetical and attitudinal nature. Mental spaces are also explored in a way that lends support to the construction and expansion of the possible worlds.

Possible/ Narrative Worlds , Joyce s Araby , Cognitive Stylistic

2014

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