This book explores how the creations of great authors result from
the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical
imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'.
Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in
neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a
rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes
beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions and
mechanisms of narrative imagination, with particular attention to
the role of theory of mind, and relates this analysis to narrative
universals. In the course of this theoretical discussion, Hogan
explores works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht,
Kafka and Calvino. He pays particular attention to the principles
and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, examining
the cognitive and emotional continuities that span an individual
author's body of work.
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