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Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421403106
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?DDC classification:
  • 809.3/927
LOC classification:
  • PN3352.P7 V47 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Fictional among Us -- 2 The Cognitive Dimension -- 3 What Hails Us? -- 4 The Literary Endowment: Five Mind-Reading Turns -- Four Openings -- Free Indirect Discourse -- Machiavellian Narratives -- Attention -- The Drama of Differential Access to Social Information -- 5 The Fantasy of Exposure and Narrative Development in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 6 God Novels -- 7 Gossip and Literary Narratives -- 8 What's the Matter with Miss Bates? -- 9 Mind Blindness -- 10 Postmodernism Reflects -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Vermeule draws upon recent research in cognitive science to understand the mental processes underlying human social interactions without sacrificing solid literary criticism. People interested in literary theory, in cognitive analyses of the arts, and in Darwinian approaches to human culture will find much to ponder in Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Fictional among Us -- 2 The Cognitive Dimension -- 3 What Hails Us? -- 4 The Literary Endowment: Five Mind-Reading Turns -- Four Openings -- Free Indirect Discourse -- Machiavellian Narratives -- Attention -- The Drama of Differential Access to Social Information -- 5 The Fantasy of Exposure and Narrative Development in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 6 God Novels -- 7 Gossip and Literary Narratives -- 8 What's the Matter with Miss Bates? -- 9 Mind Blindness -- 10 Postmodernism Reflects -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Vermeule draws upon recent research in cognitive science to understand the mental processes underlying human social interactions without sacrificing solid literary criticism. People interested in literary theory, in cognitive analyses of the arts, and in Darwinian approaches to human culture will find much to ponder in Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?.

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