The Gist of Reading

by Andrew Elfenbein

Book Overview

What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic reader-response theory and attends to neglected aspects of reading that cannot be explained by traditional literary criticism.

Reading arises from a combination of two kinds of mental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503603857
• ISBN13: 9781503603851
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"