Fictional Minds

by Alan Palmer and Alan Warwick Palmer

Book Overview

Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional minds. Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an "embedded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803218354
• ISBN13: 9780803218352
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"