The Secret Life of Literature

by Lisa Zunshine

An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of "mindreading" in a wide range of literary works.

For over four thousand years, writers have been experimenting with what cognitive scientists call "mindreading" constantly devising new social contexts for making their audiences imagine complex mental states of characters and narrators. In The Secret Life of Literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262046334
• ISBN13: 9780262046336
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"