n the brain; or, What might neuroscience tell us? / Herbert Lindenberger -- Narrative as nourishment / Ellen Spolsky -- Narrative empathy / Suzanne Keen -- The biolinguistic turn: toward a new semiotics of film / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach -- Voice and perception: an evolutionary approach to the basic function of narrative / Katja Mellmann -- Dreaming and narrative theory / Richard Walsh -- Cross-cultural mind-reading; or, Coming to terms with the ethnic mother in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Klarina Priborkin -- Theory of mind and Michael Fried's absorption and theatricality: notes to