The Secret Life of Literature
$116.58
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
For over four thousand years, writers have been experimenting with what cognitive scientists call “mindreading”—constantly devising new social contexts for making their audiences imagine complex mental states of characters and narrators. In The Secret Life of Literature, Lisa Zunshine uncovers these mindreading…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046336 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262046334 |
| Author: | Lisa Zunshine |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“[A] thrilling read … The Secret Life of Literature is written in the kind of accessible, carefully structured style that all interdisciplinary works should strive for, since it makes the study welcoming to researchers from all fields.”
—Orbis Litterarum
About The Author
Lisa Zunshine
Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why We Read Fiction, Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible, and Getting Inside Our Head.
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