Ellen Spolsky

Contracts of Fiction

Cognition, Culture, Community

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Saving Fiction invites readers to consider the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts, teaching us how to think about the stuff of daily life, animate and inanimate, as abstractions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780190232146
• ISBN-10: 0190232145
• Artikelnr.: 47863779

Autorenporträt

Ellen Spolsky is Professor of English Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her previous books include Word vs. Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind (SUNY Press, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface: An Invitation
* Chapter 1: Embodiment and its Entailments
* Chapter 2: Lyrics and their Frames
* Chapter 3: Genre Change and Narrative Recovery (Maybe)
* Chapter 4: Intelligence on a Communal Scale: An Enriched Theory of
Distributed Cognition
* Chapter 5: Distributed Misunderstanding
* Chapter 6: Affording Justice through sinderesis: an early modern
embodiment theory
* Chapter 7: Balance and Imbalance
* Chapter 8: The Skepticism of Grotesques: 'Between the Known and the
Unknown'
* Chapter 9: Detach and Reuse
* Notes
* References
* Index