Zunshine, Lisa, <br/><br/>
Why We Read Fiction :   Theory of Mind and the Novel /  
Lisa Zunshine. 
 - 1 online resource (200 pages):   illustrations. 
 - Theory and interpretation of narrative .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble? --  What is mind-reading (also known as theory of mind)? --  Theory of mind, autism, and fiction : four caveats --  "Effortless" mind-reading --  Why do we read fiction? --  The novel as a cognitive experiment --  Can cognitive science tell us why we are afraid of Mrs. Dalloway? --  The relationship between a "cognitive" analysis of Mrs. Dalloway and the larger field of literary studies --  Woolf, Pinker, and the project of interdisciplinarity --  Tracking minds. Whose thought is it, anyway? --  Metarepresentational ability and schizophrenia --  Everyday failures of source-monitoring --  Monitoring fictional states of mind --  "Fictional" and "history" --  Tracking minds in Beowulf --  Don Quixote and his progeny --  Source-monitoring, ToM, and the figure of the unreliable narrator --  Source-monitoring and the implied author --  Richardson's Clarissa : the progress of the elated bridegroom --  Nabokov's Lolita : the deadly demon meets and destroys the tenderhearted boy --  Concealing minds. ToM and the detective novel : what does it take to suspect everybody? --  Why is reading a detective story a lot like lifting weights at the gym? --  Metarepresentationality and some recurrent patterns of the detective story --  A cognitive evolutionary perspective : always historicize! --  why do we read (and write) fiction? Authors meet their readers --  Is this why we read fiction? surely, there is more to it!  pt. 1.  pt. 2.  pt. 3.  Conclusion : 
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<br/><br/> Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ciência cognitiva.<br/>Ficção (gênero)<br/>Literatura.<br/>Cognitieve processen.<br/>Psychologische aspecten.<br/>Lezen.<br/>Fictie.<br/>Literaturpsychologie<br/>Fiction--Psychological aspects.<br/>Fiction.<br/>Cognitive science.<br/>Books and reading.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / General<br/>Sciences cognitives.<br/>Livres et lecture.<br/>Roman--Aspect psychologique.<br/>Roman.<br/>Cognitive science.<br/>Books and reading.<br/>Fiction--Psychological aspects.<br/>Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Romans.<br/>Fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>Fictional Work<br/>Electronic books.