Why do we care about literary characters? /
Blakey Vermeule.
- 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-263) and index.
The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.
9781421403106 (e-book)
Fiction--Psychological aspects. Characters and characteristics in literature. Psychology and literature. Reader-response criticism. English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century