Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction pdf

Keith Oatley è uno psicologo cognitivo e romanziere. La sua ricerca riguarda la psicologia delle emozioni e la psicologia della finzione. È l'autore di sette libri di psicologia, che hanno incluso cose come i sogni: la psicologia della finzione (Wiley). Tra i suoi libri recenti c'è The Passionate Muse: Exploring emotion in stories (Oxford University Press), un romanzo originale con commenti psicologici. Il primo dei romanzi di Keith, Il caso di Emily V. (Secker e Warburg), ha vinto il Commonwealth Writers Prize per il miglior primo romanzo. Il suo romanzo più recente è Quindi scegli (Goose Lane Publications). È Fellow della Royal Society of Canada, Fellow della British Psychological Society e Fellow dell'Association for Psychological Science.

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction pdf da 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