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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463902903321

Autore

Vermeule Blakey

Titolo

Why do we care about literary characters? / / Blakey Vermeule

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-4214-0310-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/927

Soggetti

Fiction - Psychological aspects

Characters and characteristics in literature

Psychology and literature

Reader-response criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.