How Authors' Minds Make Stories

by Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'. Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107475899
• ISBN13: 9781107475892
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"