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  • 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

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edited by David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • 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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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    by H. Porter Abbott ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary ... Read more

    $30.39 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

  • 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

  • Narrative Theory

    Core Concepts and Critical Debates

    by DAVID HERMAN, JAMES PHELAN, PETER J. RABINOWITZ, BRIAN RICHARDSON, ROBYN R. WARHOL ...
    Series series THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
    Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: “what is narrative theory?” and “how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?” In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and vitality of the field and promotes a broader dialogue about its assumptions, methods, and purposes.In Part One ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Reading the Romance

    Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

    by Janice A. Radway ...
    Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing’s most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader’s dependence on men and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Narrative

    by Paul Cobley ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature

    An Introduction

    by Maria Nikolajeva ...
    As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Stories We Are

    An Essay on Self-Creation, Second Edition

    by William Randall ...
    From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives. In doing so, he draws on a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Reading in the Dark

    Horror in Children's Literature and Culture

    Edited by Jessica R. McCort ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Rebecca A. Brown, Justine Gieni, Holly Harper, Emily L. Hiltz, A. Robin Hoffman, Kirsten Kowalewski, Peter C. Kunze, Jorie Lagerwey, Nick Levey, Jessica R. McCort, and Janani SubramanianDark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally ... Read more

    $21.59 USD