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  • Theory of Mind and Literature

    Edited by Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert ...
    Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in ... Read more

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  • Bilingual

    Life and Reality

    by François Grosjean ...
    Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Multilingual Subject

    by Claire Kramsch ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    By drawing on multiple examples of real-world language learning situations, this book explores the subjective aspects of the language learning experience. ... Read more

    $66.39 USD

  • Narrative Fiction

    Contemporary Poetics

    by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan ...
    Series series New Accents
    What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues - such as events, time, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Elements of Surprise

    Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot

    by Vera Tobin ...
    Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that define a “well-made surprise.”By tracing the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • An Introduction to Narratology

    by Monika Fludernik ...
    An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative formsnarratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the fieldhow ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Somebody Telling Somebody Else

    A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative

    by Dr. James Phelan ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    In Somebody Telling Somebody Else, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytelling in order to accomplish particular purposes in relation to particular audiences. Phelan explores the consequences of this shift for an understanding of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Comic Relief

    A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor

    by John Morreall ...
    Series Book 27 - New Directions in Aesthetics
    Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humorOffers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humorReveals how standard theories of humor fail to explain its true nature and actually support traditional prejudices against humor as being antisocial, irrational, and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Such Stuff as Dreams

    The Psychology of Fiction

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Singularities

    Dance in the Age of Performance

    by Andre Lepecki ...
    How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Love in Motion

    Erotic Relationships in Film

    by Reidar Due ...
    This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion

    by Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
    In Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, Lois Oppenheim illustrates the enhancement of self that creativity affords, the relationship of imagination to the self as agent. The premise of this book is twofold: First, that the imaginary is real. Where it differs from what we commonly take to be reality is in structure and in form. The imaginary of art, for example, is not illusionary for it is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD