Peter Dixon, Marisa Bortolussi

The Analogical Reader

A Cognitive Approach to Literary Perspective Taking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Using new empirical evidence, this book weaves together insights from a multidisciplinary review into a comprehensive theory on perspective taking. It is written for anyone interested in the phenomenon of perspective taking, including psychologists, literary scholars, linguists, philosophers, and educators"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781009344180
• ISBN-10: 1009344188
• Artikelnr.: 68443127

Autorenporträt

Peter Dixon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and chapters on topics such as attention, problem solving, motor control, word and discourse processing. He has worked collaboratively with Marisa Bortolussi on the empirical study of literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. An analysis of perspective and perspective taking
3. Perspective taking in life
4. Perspective taking and literature
5. Processing components of perspective taking
6. Challenges to perspective taking
7. Evidence for analogy in perspective taking
8. Conclusions.