Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction PDF

Keith Oatley ist Kognitionspsychologe und Romanautor. Seine Forschung befasst sich mit der Psychologie der Emotionen und der Psychologie der Fiktion. Er ist Autor von sieben Büchern über Psychologie, darunter solche Sachen wie Träume: Die Psychologie der Fiktion (Wiley). Zu seinen jüngsten Büchern gehört The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories (Oxford University Press), eine originelle Novelle mit psychologischen Kommentaren. Der erste von Keiths Romanen, The Case of Emily V. (Secker and Warburg), gewann einen Commonwealth Writers Prize für den besten ersten Roman. Sein jüngster Roman ist Therefore Choose (Goose Lane Publications). Er ist Fellow der Royal Society of Canada, Fellow der British Psychological Society und Fellow der Association for Psychological Science.

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction pdf von Keith Oatley

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can improve social abilitiesExplores traditional aspects of fiction, including character, plot, setting, and theme, as well as a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cuesIncludes extensive end-notes, which ground the work in psychological studiesFeatures excerpts from fiction which are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others