Social Minds in the Novel

by Alan Palmer and Alan Warwick Palmer

Social Minds in the Novel is the highly readable sequel to Alan Palmer's award-winning and much-acclaimed Fictional Minds. Here he argues that because of its undue emphasis on the inner, introspective, private, solitary, and individual mind, literary theory tells only part of the story of how characters in novels think. In addition to this internalist view, Palmer persuasively advocates an externalist perspective on the outer, active, public,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211410
• ISBN13: 9780814211410
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.3"