Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction pdf

Keith Oatley est psychologue cognitif et romancier. Ses recherches portent sur la psychologie des émotions et la psychologie de la fiction. Il est l'auteur de sept livres de psychologie, qui ont inclus des trucs comme des rêves : La psychologie de la fiction (Wiley). Parmi ses livres récents figure The Passionate Muse: Exploring emotion in stories (Oxford University Press), une nouvelle originale avec des commentaires psychologiques. Le premier des romans de Keith, The Case of Emily V. (Secker et Warburg), a remporté un prix des écrivains du Commonwealth pour le meilleur premier roman. Son roman le plus récent est Therefore Choose (Goose Lane Publications). Il est membre de la Société royale du Canada, membre de la British Psychological Society et membre de l'Association for Psychological Science.

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction pdf par 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