Rethink modernist literature’s ‘inward turn’ with this crucial exploration of narrative cognition. Uncover how Henry James and Christopher Isherwood, among others, used narrative to illuminate the complex interplay between mind, self, and world. Dive into cognitive literary studies that reveal modernist fiction’s unique engagement with reality through relational perception. An indispensable resource for students and scholars in world literature and literary theory, this book offers profound insights into 20th-century fiction’s cognitive depth and its connection to the real.