When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind /

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"Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real even when they know they're not? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What is uniquely pleasurable about the experience of reading a novel and what do...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Auyoung, Elaine, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910. > Anna Karenina.
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
1800-1899
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Fiction > Psychological aspects.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Reading, Psychology of.
Roman > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Roman > Aspect psychologique.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Mimêsis dans la littérature.
Lecture > Psychologie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Fiction > Psychological aspects
English fiction
Mimesis in literature
Reading, Psychology of
Realism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a novel approach to reading
  • Tolstoy's embodied reader: grasping the fictional world
  • Enduring minds in Austen: becoming familiar with fictional characters
  • Organizing things in Dickens: comprehension and narrative form
  • George Eliot's promise of more: how realism enchants the everyday
  • When novels end: Hardy and the liberty of literary experience
  • Conclusion: on mimesis.

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