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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Spolsky, Ellen, 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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