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Theory of mind and literature / edited by Paula Leverage ... [et al.]. - West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2011. - ix, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theory of mind now and then: Evolutionary and historical perspectives. Theory of mind and theory of minds in literature / Social minds in Little Dorrit / The way we imagine / Theory of mind and fictions of embodied transparency -- Mind reading and literary characterization. Theory of the murderous mind: understanding the emotional intensity of John Doyle's interpretation of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd / Distraction as liveliness of mind: a cognitive approach to characterization in Jane Austen / Sancho Panza's theory of mind / Is Perceval autistic?: theory of mind in the Conte del Graal / Theory of mind and literary/linguistic structure. Whose mind's eye? free indirect discourse and the covert narrator in Marlene Streeruwitz's Nachwelt / Attractors, trajectors, and agents in Racine's Recit de Théramène / The importance of deixis and attributive style for the study of theory of mind: the example of William Faulkner's disturbed characters / Alternate states of mind. Alternative theory of mind for artificial brains: a logical approach to interpreting alien minds / Reading phantom minds: Marie Darrieussecq's Naissance des fantômes and ghosts' body language / Theory of mind and metamorphoses in dreams: Jekyll & Hyde, and The metamorphosis / Mother/daughter mind reading and ghostly intervention in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Theoretical, philosophical, political approaches. Changing minds: theory of mind and propaganda in Egon Erwin Kisch's Asien gründlich verändert / Functional brain imaging and the problem of other minds / How is it possible to have empathy? four models / Theory of mind and the conscience in El casamiento engañoso / Keith Oatley ; Alan Palmer ; Mark Turner ; Diana Calderazzo ; Natalie Phillips ; Howard Mancing ; Paula Leverage -- Jennifer Marston William ; Allen G. Wood ; Ineke Bockting -- Orley K. Marron ; Mikko Keskinen ; Richard Schweickert and Zhuangzhuang Xi ; Klarina Priborkin -- Seth Knox ; Dan Lloyd, Vince Calhoun, Godfrey Pearlson, and Robert Astur ; Fritz Breithaupt ; José Barroso Castro. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

9781557535702 (pbk.) 1557535701 (pbk.)

2010009895


Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Philosophy of mind in literature.

PN441 / .T45 2011

801.92 / THE
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