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005			20251028093307.0
008			110927s2011 mdua b 001 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781421404004
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020			_a9781421404004
020			_a1421404001
035			_a(OCoLC)756277500
050		4	_aPN 3352 .P7 _bV47 2010
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aVermeule, Blakey.
245	1	0	_aWhy do we care about literary characters? / _cBlakey Vermeule.
260			_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2010.
300			_axvi, 273 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2010.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [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
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