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Fictional Minds
| Creator | |
| Publisher |
2004
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| ISBN | 080323743X, 9780803237438,
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| Language |
English
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| Category | |
| Subject | Characters and characteristics in literature. Characters and characteristics in literature. -- fast -- (OCoLC)fst00852295 Fiction -- Technique. Fiction -- Technique. -- fast -- (OCoLC)fst00923755 Intellect in literature. Intellect in literature. -- fast -- (OCoLC)fst00975761 LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. -- bisacsh |
Description
"Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an "embedded narrative" within the whole narrative of the novel. The combination of these embedded narratives forms the plot. This perspective on narrative enables us to explore hitherto neglected aspects of fictional minds such as dispositions, emotions, and action. It also highlights the social public and dialogic mind and the "mind beyond the skin." For example much of our thought is intermental, or joint, group or shared; even our identity is to an extent socially distributed.".