How authors' minds make stories /

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This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as "simulations." Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hogan, Patrick Colm
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects.
Creative ability > Psychological aspects.
Cognitive science.
Art d'écrire > Aspect psychologique.
Créativité > Aspect psychologique.
Sciences cognitives.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Authorship.
Authorship > Psychological aspects
Cognitive science
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects
Creative ability > Psychological aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Simulation: imagining fictional worlds in Faulkner and Austen
  • Story development, literary evaluation, and the place of character
  • A narrative idiolect: Shakespeare's heroic stories
  • Principles and parameters of storytelling: the trajectory of Racine's romantic tragedies
  • Argument and metaphor in Brecht and Kafka
  • Emplotment: selection, organization, and construal in Hamlet.

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