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How Authors' Minds Make Stories

About How Authors' Minds Make Stories

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation, drawing on recent research in neuroscience and literary analyses of works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht, Kafka and Calvino.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781107034402
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 250
  • Published:
  • January 27, 2013
  • Dimensions:
  • 232x157x19 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 478 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: January 12, 2025

Description of How Authors' Minds Make Stories

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation, drawing on recent research in neuroscience and literary analyses of works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht, Kafka and Calvino.

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