Lisa Zunshine

The Secret Life of Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 234mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780262046336
• ISBN-10: 0262046334
• Artikelnr.: 62917091

Autorenporträt

Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why We Read Fiction, Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible, Getting Inside Our Head.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
1 The Secret Life of Literature 1
2 Mindreading and Social Status 59
3 "Deep" History: Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Foundations of Complex
Embedment 99
4 Cultural History: Ideologies of Mind 113
5 Literary History: The Importance of Being Deceived 141
6 Embedded Mental States in Children's Literature 193
Conclusion: On the Future of the "Secret Life" of Literature 219
Notes 223
Bibliography 273
Index 305