A Mental Model Structure Approach to a Faulknerian Character: A Fable
A Mental Model Structure Approach to a Faulknerian Character: A Fable

Summary/Abstract: The essence of a novel is often focused on a character, which actually gives the measure of the complexity of its construction. A literary character is the result of the interaction of its author, the narrative fiction, and its reader, and the result is the illusion of a real person. The mental model is the re-created literary character in the mind of the reader, according to the cognitive theory of Johnson-Laird. Merging the model of a Biblical myth (Jesus) and the stereotype image of some participant in WWI gave birth to Faulkner’s most interesting Homo Fictus in his acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novel, A Fable.

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