When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / Elaine Auyoung.
When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / Elaine Auyoung.
When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / Elaine Auyoung.
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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G 2019/1389
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English
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Physical content
x, 164 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"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 readers lose when this experience comes to an end? These que...
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When fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind / Elaine Auyoung.
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Representation and the reading mind
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-156) and index.
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E-book 9780190845506 9780190845483
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G 2019/1389
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74VKVyykd3bl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVyykd3bl
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ISBN
9780190845476 hardcover
0190845473 hardcover
DDC
808.3
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991024235819102626
