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020			_a9780190845476
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100			_aAuyoung, Elaine
245			_aWhen fiction feels real : representation and the reading mind
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2018 _aNew York :
300			_ax, 164 p. ; _bill., _c25 cm
365			_b82.00 _cUSD _d77.30
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhy do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real even when they know they're not? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What is uniquely pleasurable about the experience of reading a novel and what do readers lose when this experience comes to an end? These questions are central to literary experience but remain difficult for readers, critics, and philosophers to explain. When Fiction Feels Real introduces a new set of tools for thinking about the phenomenology of reading by bringing narrative techniques into conversation with well-established psychological research on reading and cognition. Through sensitive attention to classic novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy, as well as to the elegies of Thomas Hardy, Elaine Auyoung reveals what nineteenth-century writers know about what happens when we read. This book changes the way we think about literary language, realist aesthetics, and what readers bring to a text, opening up a new field of inquiry centered on the intricate relationship between fictional representation and comprehension.
650			_aReading, Psychology of
650			_aRealism in literature
650			_aMimesis in literature
650			_aEnglish fiction
650			_aFiction-Psychological aspects
650			_aAnna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
650			_aLiterature-Psychological aspects
650			_aPhenomenology
650			_aTheory of fiction
650			_aRoman Psychological aspect
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