The secret life of literature / / Lisa Zunshine.

"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--

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Superior document:The MIT Press
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The MIT Press
Physical Description:1 online resource (243 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The secret life of literature
  • Mindreading and social status
  • The "deep" history : the evolutionary and neurocognitive foundations of complex embedment
  • Cultural history : ideologies of mind
  • Literary history : the importance of being deceived
  • Embedded mental states in children's literature
  • Conclusion: On the future of the secret life of literature.