خلاصة:
Psychoanalysis is a cognitive approach that studies the relationship between the reader's psychological processes and the narrative form. This article aims to respond to how narrative elements affect the representation of cannibalism in children's and young adult stories. Since the plot of many children's stories is based on the predator-prey relationship, this subject was chosen for research. In these stories, an animal or human who is the main character is killed by an attacker and then eaten. The statistical community studied consists of stories based on the theme of cannibalism. The present research was conducted using a qualitative-deductive content analysis method and a cognitive narratological approach across age groups 'A', 'B', and 'C'. The results of the research show that narrative components (such as repetition, emphasis, the distance between the narrator and the characters, the categorization of the attacker and the victim, the reversibility of death, and suspenseful gaps in description) play a role in the conceptualization of 'cannibalism'. The lack of death studies in general and research regarding the predator-prey relationship in particular necessitates this research in children's literature.
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43-76 Research Article Representation of 'Cannibalism' in Children's and Young Adult Stories, with a Cognitive Narratological Approach 1* Amirhossein Zanjanbar (Received: 2023/09/11, Accepted: 2024/02/16) Abstract Cognitive narratology is a cognitive approach that studies the relationship between the reader's cognitive processes and the narrative form.
com Narratology Bimonthly Year 9, Number 17, Spring and Summer 2025 characters, both as categories of aggressor and victim, the reversibility of death, and suspensive gaps in description ) play a role in the conceptualization of "cannibalism".
2. How do these narrative elements, with internalized cognitive structures 48 The representation of "cannibalism" in children's and young adult stories, ...
49 Narratology Bimonthly Year 9, Number 17, Spring and Summer 2025 Shank and Ebelson (1977), in the article "Frameworks 12, Imagination, Goals and Perception: An Inquiry into the Structures of Human Knowledge," by relying on schema theory, have investigated the role of unique knowledge in reducing the complexity and difficulty of processing activities (especially the difficulty of interpreting narratives).
In fact, it is better when studying and examining these schemas to consider them as different aspects of a single cognitive process that uses prototypical and pre-determined interpretive models to understand a new narrative situation (Hermans, 1997).
As Louis Strauss 38 also says, stories may seem similar based on Propp's structural pattern, but if a single cruelty is committed by two different animal characters, it will not have the same effect on the story's audience; because the cultural background and 59 Narratology Bimonthly Year 9, Number 17, Spring and Summer 2025 animal cognitive perception is different from another animal like the crow.
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