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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566488603321

Autore

Zunshine Lisa

Titolo

The secret life of literature / / Lisa Zunshine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

0-262-36765-3

0-262-36764-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Collana

The MIT Press

Disciplina

801/.9

Soggetti

Literature - Psychological aspects

Cognition in literature

Psychology and literature

Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects

Discourse analysis, Literary - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The secret life of literature -- Mindreading and social status -- The "deep" history : the evolutionary and neurocognitive foundations of complex embedment -- Cultural history : ideologies of mind -- Literary history : the importance of being deceived -- Embedded mental states in children's literature -- Conclusion: On the future of the secret life of literature.

Sommario/riassunto

"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--