Before you get scared away by the title of the post above or the title of the book, the book description assures us that the text is jargon-free.
The Whispersync companion to this ebook is only
$1.98. I'll let the people on the Audiobooks thread know about this, too.
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. By Lisa Zunshine. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 12 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $22.95; digital list price $1.99; Kindle price now
$0.00. Ohio State University Press. 198 pages.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Read-Ficti...+and+the+Novel.
Book Description
Why We Read Fiction
offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa
, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment
, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
to Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
, Nabokov’s Lolita
, and Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon
. Zunshine’s surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.