The contracts of fiction : cognition, culture, community /

This title considers the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts. It combines current cognitive research with attention to the historical context of works of imagination to argue against the claim that fictions corrupt clear thinking and provide, at best, inert ple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spolsky, Ellen, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Cognition in literature.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Cognition dans la littérature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Embodiment and its entailments
  • Lyrics and their frames
  • Genre change and narrative recovery (maybe)
  • Intelligence on a communal scale: an enriched theory of distributed cognition
  • Distributed misunderstanding
  • Affording justice through sinderesis: an early modern embodiment theory
  • Balance and imbalance
  • The skepticism of grotesques: "between the known and the unknown"
  • Detach and reuse
  • Conclusion and the next questions.

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