When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind

When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / Elaine Auyoung.

"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...

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Main Author: Auyoung, Elaine, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910. > Anna Karenina.
Fiction > Psychological aspects.
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Reading, Psychology of.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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