When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / / Elaine Auyoung
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| Autore: |
Auyoung Elaine <1981->
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| Titolo: |
When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / / Elaine Auyoung
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina: | 808.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Fiction - Psychological aspects | |
| Realism in literature | |
| Reading, Psychology of | |
| Mimesis in literature | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When fiction feels real |
| ISBN: | 0-19-084549-X |
| 0-19-084550-3 | |
| 0-19-084548-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793120303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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