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The secret life of literature /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zunshine, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Literature > Psychological aspects.
Cognition in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects.
Discourse analysis, Literary > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • The secret life of literature
  • Mindreading and social status
  • The "deep" history : the evolutionary and neurocognitive foundations of complex embedment
  • Cultural history : ideologies of mind
  • Literary history : the importance of being deceived
  • Embedded mental states in children's literature
  • Conclusion: On the future of the secret life of literature.