Intro -- Style and Reader Response -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Responding to style -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stylistics and the reader -- 3. Minds -- 4. Media -- 5. Methods -- 6. Conclusion -- 2. Interpretation in interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Reading groups -- 1.2 Data collection: Andy's group -- 2. Style: The poem under discussion -- 3. Dialogism -- 3.1 Dialogic syntax -- 4. Response: Dialogic interpretation -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Modelling an unethical mind -- 1. Introduction: The dystopian imagination -- 2. Reading dystopian minds -- 2.1 Text World Theory and mind-modelling -- 3. The refracted text-worlds of Bacigalupi's "Pop Squad" -- 4. Mind-modelling the narrator -- 5. Conclusion: Projecting and resisting text-world ethics -- 4. Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Text World Theory and critical reception -- 3. Resisting "out loud" -- 4. Resisting the writer (…and the other discourse participants) -- 5. Resisting the text-world -- 6. Conclusion: towards a stylistics of critical reception -- 5. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context, literary reading, and cultural models -- 3. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction -- 3.1 Cultural models in character construction: Categorical knowledge and interpretive patterns -- 3.2 The cultural model of character -- 4. Toward the (empirical) analysis of cultural models at work -- 6. "Why do you insist that Alana is not real?" -- 1. Introduction: There's no artist like Alana Olsen -- 2. Fictionality and empirical Research: There's no reality like fiction -- 2.1 The development of fiction/reality distinctions -- 2.2 Factors effecting fiction/reality judgment and processing.