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The Secret Life of LiteratureOpen Access

By
Lisa Zunshine
Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why We Read Fiction, Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible, Getting Inside Our Head.

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The MIT Press
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13964.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262367653
In Special Collection: CogNet
Publication date:
2022

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Preface
  6. 1. The Secret Life of Literature
  7. 2. Mindreading and Social Status
  8. 3. “Deep” History: Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Foundations of Complex Embedment
  9. 4. Cultural History: Ideologies of Mind
  10. 5. Literary History: The Importance of Being Deceived
  11. 6. Embedded Mental States in Children’s Literature
  12. Conclusion: On the Future of the “Secret Life” of Literature
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
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