Why do we care about literary characters? /
Vermeule, Blakey.
Why do we care about literary characters? / Blakey Vermeule. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. - xvi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.
9780801893605 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801893607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009002903
Fiction--Psychological aspects.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Reader-response criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
PN3352.P7 / V47 2010
809.3/927
Why do we care about literary characters? / Blakey Vermeule. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. - xvi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.
9780801893605 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801893607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009002903
Fiction--Psychological aspects.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Reader-response criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
PN3352.P7 / V47 2010
809.3/927