Elements of surprise : our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot /
Elements of Surprise opens with a novel but narrow focus: how a particular cognitive bias, the "curse of knowledge," underwrites stories that rely on what it calls "well-made surprise," as seen in (for example) classic detective fiction--that is, surprises in novels, films, telev...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Elementary problems
- The curse of knowledge?
- The poetics of surprise
- The naming of things
- Revelations, recognitions, and the satisfactions of plot
- When unreliability is a surprise
- When narration itself is a surprise
- So many things are obvious (now that we're at the end).