Why do we care about literary characters? / Blakey Vermeule.

By: Vermeule, Blakey [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421403106Subject(s): Fiction -- Psychological aspects | Characters and characteristics in literature | Psychology and literature | Reader-response criticism | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why do we care about literary characters?.DDC classification: 809.3/927 LOC classification: PN3352.P7 | V47 2010Online resources: Click to View
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 (pages [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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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