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Fictional Minds
Alan Palmer
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Description for Fictional Minds
Paperback. Suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. This work analyzes constructions of characters' minds in the fictional texts of a wide range of authors, from Aphra Behn and Henry Fielding to Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional minds. Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an embedded narrative within the whole narrative of the novel. The combination of these embedded narratives forms the plot. This perspective on narrative enables us to explore hitherto neglected aspects of fictional minds such as ... Read more
Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional minds. Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an embedded narrative within the whole narrative of the novel. The combination of these embedded narratives forms the plot. This perspective on narrative enables us to explore hitherto neglected aspects of fictional minds such as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Frontiers of Narrative
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803218352
SKU
V9780803218352
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About Alan Palmer
Alan Palmer is an independent scholar living in London, England. He has a PhD from the University of East London.
Reviews for Fictional Minds
Palmer's book develops a radically new and powerfully integrative approach to the minds presented in fictional texts. Fictional Minds promises to be a pathbreaking book that will have a major impact on several fields of study. -David Herman, author of Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative
David Herman Though critics and cognitive scientists may define reading differently, ... Read more
David Herman Though critics and cognitive scientists may define reading differently, ... Read more