When fiction feels real representation and the reading mind
Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real even when they know they're not? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What is uniquely pleasurable about the experience of reading a novel and what do reader...
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New York :
Oxford University Press
cop. 2018
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
