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04025aam a2200421 i 4500 001 17E8654A253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 210714t20222022maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021031221 020 $a 0262046334 020 $a 9780262046336 035 $a (OCoLC)1257479465 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TFW $d YDX $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d LML $d UPM $d ZLM $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.P93 $b Z866 2022 082 00 $a 801/.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Zunshine, Lisa, $e author. 245 14 $a The secret life of literature / $c Lisa Zunshine. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, 264 $c [2022] 300 $a xiii, 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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, Lisa Zunshine uncovers these mindreading patterns, which have, until now, remained invisible to both readers and critics, in works ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Invisible Man. Bringing together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary studies, this engaging book transforms our understanding of literary history. Central to Zunshine's argument is the exploration of mental states 'embedded' within each other, as, for instance, when Ellison's Invisible Man is aware of how his white Communist Party comrades pretend not to understand what he means, when they want to reassert their position of power. Paying special attention to how race, class, and gender inform literary embedments, Zunshine contrasts this dynamic with real-life patterns studied by cognitive and social psychologists. She also considers community-specific mindreading values and looks at the rise and migration of embedment patterns across genres and national literary traditions, noting particularly the use of deception, eavesdropping, and shame as plot devices. Finally, she investigates mindreading in children's literature. Stories for children geared toward different stages of development, she shows, provide cultural scaffolding for initiating young readers into a long-term engagement with the secret life of literature." -- Publisher's description 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index. 505 0 $a The secret life of literature -- Mindreading and social status -- The "deep" history : the evolutionary and neurocognitive foundations of complex embedment -- Cultural history : ideologies of mind -- Literary history : the importance of being deceived -- Embedded mental states in children's literature -- Conclusion: On the future of the secret life of literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Cognition in literature. 650 0 $a Psychology and literature. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Discourse analysis, Literary $x Psychological aspects. 650 7 $a Cognition in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00866515 650 7 $a Discourse analysis, Literary $x Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894946 650 7 $a Literature $x Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000007 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032930 650 7 $a Psychology and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081551 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023728.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17E8654A253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search