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Why do we care about literary characters? /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vermeule, Blakey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Fiction > Psychological aspects.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Reader-response criticism.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The fictional among us
  • The cognitive dimension
  • What hails us?
  • The literary endowment : five mind reading turns
  • The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain
  • God novels
  • Gossip and literary narratives
  • What's the matter with Miss Bates?
  • Mind blindness
  • Postmodernism reflects : J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.