The secret life of literature

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zunshine, Lisa (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Literature > Psychological aspects. Cognition in literature. Psychology and literature. Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects. Discourse analysis, Literary > Psychological aspects. Cognitive science. Lexicography. Fiction companions. Cognition in literature Discourse analysis, Literary > Psychological aspects Literature > Psychological aspects Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects Psychology and literature
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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.