The Secret Life of Literature

• Auteur principal: Zunshine, Lisa (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Collection: The MIT Press
• Sujets: Cognitive science; Lexicography; Fiction companions; cognition; theory of mind; novel; cognition and literature; fiction: social aspects; mindreading and social status; Bakhtin; opacity model; children's literature; creative writing.
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of "mindreading" in a wide range of literary works. For over four thousand years, writers have been experimenting with what cognitive scientists call "mindreading":...