The Secret Life of Literature

• Main Author: Zunshine, Lisa (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: 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.
• Online Access: 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":...