TY - JOUR UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20455/ PB - Penn State University Press N1 - Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.49.3.0257 Y1 - 2015/// TI - Is Narrative ?The Description of Fictional Mental Functioning?? Heliodorus Against Palmer, Zunshine & Co AV - public SP - 257 JF - Style ID - heidok20455 EP - 284 A1 - Grethlein, Jonas IS - 3 N2 - This essay challenges concepts that consider the theory of mind to be key to our response to narrative from a historical perspective. Although the classical modern novel lends itself to the claims of Palmer, Zunshine, and others on account of its prominent consciousness presentation, the ancient novel as well as modern paralittérature cannot be adequately described as ?the description of fictional mental functioning.? An exemplary reading of Heliodorus? Ethiopica draws our attention to an aspect that is in danger of being downplayed in cognitive narratology, namely the temporal dynamics of narrative. VL - 49 ER -