Elements of Surprise : : Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot / / Vera Tobin.
Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Elementary Problems
- 2. The Curse of Knowledge?
- 3. The Poetics of Surprise
- 4. The Naming of Things
- 5. Revelations, Recognitions, and the Satisfactions of Plot
- 6. When Unreliability Is a Surprise
- 7. When Narration Itself Is a Surprise
- 8. So Many Things Are Obvious (Now That We’re at the End)
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index