Elaine Auyoung

When Fiction Feels Real

Representation and the Reading Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780197621271
• ISBN-10: 0197621279
• Artikelnr.: 62188094

Autorenporträt

Elaine Auyoung is McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor of English, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: A Novel Approach to Reading
* Chapter 1: Tolstoy's Embodied Reader: Grasping the Fictional World
* Chapter 2: Enduring Minds in Austen: Becoming Familiar with Fictional
Characters
* Chapter 3: Organizing Things in Dickens: Comprehension and Narrative
Form
* Chapter 4: George Eliot's Promise of More: How Realism Enchants the
Everyday
* Chapter 5: When Novels End: Hardy and the Liberty of Literary
Experience
* Conclusion: On Mimesis
* Works Cited