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This paper is an attempt to show how schematic challenge can be posed by activating certain levels of schematic default elements across the network of the reader s prototypical schematic expectations. The triggering of certain levels of detail leads to a process of cognitive defamiliarization that takes place through a sort of schematic foregrounding. This type of cognitive foregrounding brings up certain levels of specificity with varying degrees of overspecification or underspecification. Accordingly, a schematic challenge might not involve destroying old schemata or creating new ones but all it takes is simply triggering unexpected levels of detail within the reader s pre-existing schematic toolkit. Murakami s novel Kafka on the Shore sets a cognitive challenge to the reader s schematic expectations in a way that is inherently related to the basic artistic properties of the fantasy literature which the novel belongs to. Murakami injects his novel with a variety of schematic surprises that go against the reader s established schematic expectations.

discourse deviation , cognitive challenge , schematic disruption , schematic destroying , level of detail , schematic deviation

2019

مجله ابحاث البصره للعلوم الانسانيه

مجله ابحاث البصره للعلوم الانسانيه