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Research in the cognitive sciences, including fields such as psychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of mind, can help foster the development of" postclassical" approaches to the study of narrative. At issue are frameworks for narrative research that build on the work of classical, structuralist narratologists but supplement that work with concepts and methods that were unavailable to story analysts such as Roland Barthes, G6rard Genette, AJ Greimas, and Tzvetan Todorov during the heyday of the structuralist revolution.'One such framework, or cluster of frame-works, has begun to take shape under the rubric of" cognitive narratology," and in the present essay I hope to contribute to this emergent area of narrative inquiry by draw-ing on ideas from social psychology to explore the nexus between narrative and mind. 2 Further, whereas cognitive narratologists have focused for the most part on written, literary narratives …