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By Patrick Colm Hogan

ISBN-10: 110703440X

ISBN-13: 9781107034402

ISBN-10: 1107475899

ISBN-13: 9781107475892

This ebook explores how the creations of significant authors end result from a similar operations as our daily counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists confer with as 'simulations'. Drawing on distinctive literary analyses in addition to fresh examine in neuroscience and comparable fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous concept of the foundations governing simulation that is going past any latest framework. He examines the features and mechanisms of narrative mind's eye, with specific realization to the position of conception of brain, and relates this research to narrative universals. during this theoretical dialogue, Hogan explores works by way of Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht, Kafka and Calvino. He can pay specific consciousness to the foundations and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, analyzing the cognitive and emotional continuities that span someone author's physique of work.

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