New narrative pleasures?: A cognitive-phenomenological study of the experience of reading digital narrative fictions
Published 1 January 2006Open access
Anne Mangen
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New narrative pleasures? : A cognitive-phenomenological study of the experience of reading digital narrative fictions
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