Why We Read Fiction : Theory of Mind and the Novel /

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Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zunshine, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ciência cognitiva.
Ficção (gênero)
Literatura.
Cognitieve processen.
Psychologische aspecten.
Lezen.
Fictie.
Literaturpsychologie
Fiction > Psychological aspects.
Fiction.
Cognitive science.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Sciences cognitives.
Livres et lecture.
Roman > Aspect psychologique.
Roman.
Romans.
Fictional Work
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble?
  • What is mind-reading (also known as theory of mind)?
  • Theory of mind, autism, and fiction : four caveats
  • "Effortless" mind-reading
  • Why do we read fiction?
  • The novel as a cognitive experiment
  • Can cognitive science tell us why we are afraid of Mrs. Dalloway?
  • The relationship between a "cognitive" analysis of Mrs. Dalloway and the larger field of literary studies
  • Woolf, Pinker, and the project of interdisciplinarity
  • pt. 2. Tracking minds. Whose thought is it, anyway?
  • Metarepresentational ability and schizophrenia
  • Everyday failures of source-monitoring
  • Monitoring fictional states of mind
  • "Fictional" and "history"
  • Tracking minds in Beowulf
  • Don Quixote and his progeny
  • Source-monitoring, ToM, and the figure of the unreliable narrator
  • Source-monitoring and the implied author
  • Richardson's Clarissa : the progress of the elated bridegroom
  • Nabokov's Lolita : the deadly demon meets and destroys the tenderhearted boy
  • pt. 3. Concealing minds. ToM and the detective novel : what does it take to suspect everybody?
  • Why is reading a detective story a lot like lifting weights at the gym?
  • Metarepresentationality and some recurrent patterns of the detective story
  • A cognitive evolutionary perspective : always historicize!
  • Conclusion : why do we read (and write) fiction? Authors meet their readers
  • Is this why we read fiction? surely, there is more to it!

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