How Authors' Minds Make Stories

by Patrick Colm Hogan

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This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'. Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1107475899

ISBN13:9781107475892

Release Date:December 2014

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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