Elements of surprise : our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot /

Elements of Surprise opens with an novel but narrow focus: how a particular cognitive bias, the "curse of knowledge," underwrites stories that rely on what it calls "well-made surprise," as seen in (for example) classic detective fiction--that is, surprises in novels, films, tele...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tobin, Vera, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Sujets:
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Surprise in literature.
Literary anatomies.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Cognition.
Cognition
Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.)
Surprise dans la littérature.
Anatomie (Genre littéraire)
Narration.
cognition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
Literary anatomies
Surprise in literature
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Neurosciences.
Cognitivism, cognitive theory.
Literary studies: general.
Cognitive studies.
Literature.
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