Why We Read Fiction : Theory of Mind and the Novel /
Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski...
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The Ohio State University Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble?
- What is mind-reading (also known as theory of mind)?
- Theory of mind, autism, and fiction : four caveats
- "Effortless" mind-reading
- Why do we read fiction?
- The novel as a cognitive experiment
- Can cognitive science tell us why we are afraid of Mrs. Dalloway?
- The relationship between a "cognitive" analysis of Mrs. Dalloway and the larger field of literary studies
- Woolf, Pinker, and the project of interdisciplinarity
- pt. 2. Tracking minds. Whose thought is it, anyway?
- Metarepresentational ability and schizophrenia
- Everyday failures of source-monitoring
- Monitoring fictional states of mind
- "Fictional" and "history"
- Tracking minds in Beowulf
- Don Quixote and his progeny
- Source-monitoring, ToM, and the figure of the unreliable narrator
- Source-monitoring and the implied author
- Richardson's Clarissa : the progress of the elated bridegroom
- Nabokov's Lolita : the deadly demon meets and destroys the tenderhearted boy
- pt. 3. Concealing minds. ToM and the detective novel : what does it take to suspect everybody?
- Why is reading a detective story a lot like lifting weights at the gym?
- Metarepresentationality and some recurrent patterns of the detective story
- A cognitive evolutionary perspective : always historicize!
- Conclusion : why do we read (and write) fiction? Authors meet their readers
- Is this why we read fiction? surely, there is more to it!