Why do we care about literary characters? / Blakey Vermeule.
Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Description: xvi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780801893605 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0801893607 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Fiction -- Psychological aspects | Characters and characteristics in literature | Psychology and literature | Reader-response criticism | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809.3/927 LOC classification: PN3352.P7 | V47 2010
Contents:
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.
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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.