Keith Oatley 
Such Stuff as Dreams [EPUB ebook] 
The Psychology of Fiction

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Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.


  • Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves

  • Informed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can improve social abilities

  • Explores traditional aspects of fiction, including character, plot, setting, and theme, as well as a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cues

  • Includes extensive end-notes, which ground the work in psychological studies

  • Features excerpts from fiction which are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1 Fiction as dream: Models, world-building, simulation.

2 The space-in-between: Childhood play as the entrance to fiction.

3 Creativity: Imagined worlds.

4 Character, action, incident: Mental models of people and their doings.

5 Emotions: Scenes in the imagination.

6 Writing fiction: Cues for the reader.

7 Effects of fiction: Is fiction good for you?

8 Talking about fiction: Interpretation in conversation.

Endnotes.

Bibliography.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Über den Autor

Keith Oatley is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of Understanding Emotions (Blackwell, 2006), the most widely used textbook on this subject, and has written three works of fiction, including The Case of Emily V. (1993), which won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781119973539 ● Dateigröße 2.4 MB ● Verlag John Wiley & Sons ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2358163 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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