search for books and compare prices
fiction psychological aspects matches 7 work(s)
displaying 1 to 7 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a radical move to link the neurosciences with psychoanalysis, Fox foregrounds the interpretive experience as a way to reach personal emotional equilibrium by working through autobiographical issues within a fictive form.
Hardcover:
9780253020871 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 21, 2016, cover price $80.00
Paperback:
9780253020918 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 21, 2016, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds.
Paperback:
9780763677015 | Candlewick Pr, August 4, 2015, cover price $7.99
Product Description: After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favourites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures. 'On Rereading' records the surprising results of her personal experiment and raises a number of intriguing questions...read more
Hardcover:
9780674062221 | Belknap Pr, November 1, 2011, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780674725898 | Belknap Pr, November 18, 2013, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favourites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures.
Product Description: Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way...read more
Hardcover:
9780826495952 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 27, 2009, cover price $130.00
Paperback:
9781441182104 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 22, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work.
Product Description: 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, ourselves Informed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can improve social abilities Explores traditional aspects of fiction, including character, plot, setting, and theme, as well as a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cues Includes extensive end-notes, which ground the work in psychological studies Features excerpts from fiction which are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others...read more
Paperback:
9780470974575 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 6, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.
Miscellaneous:
9781119973539 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 5, 2011, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781412811385 | Transaction Pub, August 18, 2011, cover price $42.95
Product Description: From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of âstoryâ our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives...read more
Hardcover:
9780802005649 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of 'story' our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.
Paperback:
9781442626386 | 2 edition (Univ of Toronto Pr, January 2, 2014), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of âstoryâ our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.
9780802069863 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of 'story' our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.
displaying 1 to 7 |
at end