02513nam 2200577 450 991079312030332120230216180505.00-19-084549-X0-19-084550-30-19-084548-1(CKB)4100000007008825(StDuBDS)EDZ0001938917(MiAaPQ)EBC5552112(PPN)233460632(EXLCZ)99410000000700882520181031d2018 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierWhen fiction feels real representation and the reading mind /Elaine AuyoungNew York, NY :Oxford University Press,2018.1 online resource illustrations (black and white)Includes index.0-19-084547-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: a novel approach to reading -- Tolstoy's embodied reader: grasping the fictional world -- Enduring minds in Austen: becoming familiar with fictional characters -- Organizing things in Dickens: comprehension and narrative form -- George Eliot's promise of more: how realism enchants the everyday -- When novels end: Hardy and the liberty of literary experience -- Conclusion: on mimesis.This work explores questions that are central to literary experience but remain difficult for critics to explain, such as how novels can seem to transport readers to fictional worlds that feel real, why literary characters can come to seem like intimate friends, and what is uniquely pleasurable about reading fiction.FictionHistory and criticismTheory, etcEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFictionPsychological aspectsRealism in literatureReading, Psychology ofMimesis in literatureFictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc.English fictionHistory and criticism.FictionPsychological aspects.Realism in literature.Reading, Psychology of.Mimesis in literature.808.3Auyoung Elaine1981-1521426MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793120303321When fiction feels real3760570UNINA