| Description |
ix, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Theory of mind now and then: Evolutionary and historical perspectives. Theory of mind and theory of minds in literature / Keith Oatley ; Social minds in Little Dorrit / Alan Palmer ; The way we imagine / Mark Turner ; Theory of mind and fictions of embodied transparency -- 2. Mind reading and literary characterization. Theory of the murderous mind: understanding the emotional intensity of John Doyle's interpretation of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd / Diana Calderazzo ; Distraction as liveliness of mind: a cognitive approach to characterization in Jane Austen / Natalie Phillips ; Sancho Panza's theory of mind / Howard Mancing ; Is Perceval autistic?: theory of mind in the Conte del Graal / Paula Leverage -- 3. Theory of mind and literary/linguistic structure. Whose mind's eye? free indirect discourse and the covert narrator in Marlene Streeruwitz's Nachwelt / Jennifer Marston William ; Attractors, trajectors, and agents in Racine's Recit de Théramène / Allen G. Wood ; The importance of deixis and attributive style for the study of theory of mind: the example of William Faulkner's disturbed characters / Ineke Bockting -- 4. Alternate states of mind. Alternative theory of mind for artificial brains: a logical approach to interpreting alien minds / Orley K. Marron ; Reading phantom minds: Marie Darrieussecq's Naissance des fantômes and ghosts' body language / Mikko Keskinen ; Theory of mind and metamorphoses in dreams: Jekyll & Hyde, and The metamorphosis / Richard Schweickert and Zhuangzhuang Xi ; Mother/daughter mind reading and ghostly intervention in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Klarina Priborkin -- 5. Theoretical, philosophical, political approaches. Changing minds: theory of mind and propaganda in Egon Erwin Kisch's Asien gründlich verändert / Seth Knox ; Functional brain imaging and the problem of other minds / Dan Lloyd, Vince Calhoun, Godfrey Pearlson, and Robert Astur ; How is it possible to have empathy? four models / Fritz Breithaupt ; Theory of mind and the conscience in El casamiento engañoso / José Barroso Castro |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Philosophy of mind in literature.
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| Author |
Leverage, Paula, 1970-
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| LC no. |
2010009895 |
| ISBN |
9781557535702 |
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1557535701 |
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