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When Fiction Feels Real : Representation and the Reading Mind.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190845483
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: When Fiction Feels RealDDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN3352.P7 .A996 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- When Fiction Feels Real -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Novel Approach to Reading -- 1. Tolstoy's Embodied Reader: Grasping the Fictional World -- 2. Enduring Minds in Austen: Becoming Familiar with Fictional Characters -- 3. Organizing Things in Dickens: Comprehension and Narrative Form -- 4. George Eliot's Promise of More: How Realism Enchants the Everyday -- 5. When Novels End: Hardy and the Liberty of Literary Experience -- Conclusion: On Mimesis -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: When Fiction Feels Real offers a new approach to the phenomenology of reading by engaging with psychological research on reading and cognition. Focusing on the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung demonstrates what nineteenth-century writers know about the pleasure of literary experience.
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Cover -- When Fiction Feels Real -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Novel Approach to Reading -- 1. Tolstoy's Embodied Reader: Grasping the Fictional World -- 2. Enduring Minds in Austen: Becoming Familiar with Fictional Characters -- 3. Organizing Things in Dickens: Comprehension and Narrative Form -- 4. George Eliot's Promise of More: How Realism Enchants the Everyday -- 5. When Novels End: Hardy and the Liberty of Literary Experience -- Conclusion: On Mimesis -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

When Fiction Feels Real offers a new approach to the phenomenology of reading by engaging with psychological research on reading and cognition. Focusing on the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung demonstrates what nineteenth-century writers know about the pleasure of literary experience.

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