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050 4 $aPN3352.P7$bV47 2011
082 04 $a809.3 UKD
100 1 $aVermeule, Blakey.
245 10 $aWhy do we care about literary characters? /$cBlakey Vermeule.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2011.
300 $axvi, 273 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: 2010.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $a"Vermeule examines the ways in which readers' experiences of literature are affected by the emotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how those experiences then influence their social relationships in real life. She focuses on a range of topics, from intimate articulations of sexual desire, gender identity, ambition, and rivalry to larger issues brought on by rapid historical and economic change. Vermeule discusses the phenomenon of emotional attachment to literary characters primarily in terms of 18th-century British fiction but also considers the postmodern work of Thomas Mann, J.M. Coetzee, Ian McEwan, and Chinua Achebe. From the perspective of cognitive science, Vermeule finds that caring about literary characters is not all that different from caring about other people, especially strangers. The tools used by literary authors to sharpen and focus reader interest tap into evolved neural mechanisms that trigger a caring response."--Publisher's website.
650 0 $aFiction$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature.
650 0 $aPsychology and literature.
650 0 $aReader-response criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00852295
650 7 $aEnglish fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00910817
650 7 $aFiction$xPsychological aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00923742
650 7 $aPsychology and literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01081551
650 7 $aReader-response criticism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01090552
648 7 $a1700 - 1799$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bmil$hPN3352.P7$iV47 2011