How Authors' Minds Make Stories.

Cover; How Authors' Minds Make Stories; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Simulation; From Deictic Shift to Simulation; The Function-Approximating Mechanisms of Simulation; Levels, Means, Processes, and Topics of Simulation; A Theoretical Note on Rules and Networks; The Resurrection of Quentin Compson; Simulating Minds: Elements of Emma Woodhouse's Neural Network; Conclusion; 2 Story Development, Literary Evaluation, and the Place of Character; Universal Genres; Development Principles; Evaluation Principles; Conclusion; 3 A Narrative Idiolect.

Shakespearean PatternsShakespeare's Narrative Idiolect; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Richard II; Hamlet; The Tempest; Conclusion; 4 Principles and Parameters of Storytelling; A Note on the Analysis of Racine's Work; La Thébaïd ou Les Frères Ennemis (The Thebiad or The Enemy Brothers); Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great); Andromaque; Britannicus; Bérénice; Bajazet; Mithridate; Iphigénie; Phèdre; Conclusion; 5 Argument and Metaphor in Brecht and Kafka; Arguments and Metaphors; Theater for Instruction: Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken); The Complexity of Models.

Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)Conclusion; 6 Emplotment; The Emplotment of Hamlet: Some General Principles; The Emplotment of Hamlet: Textual Particulars; Conclusion; Afterword; Simulating Narrative Minds; Narration Occluded or Explained: Faulkner's Light in August; Bunch Bumbles, Lena Leery; Celebrating Artifice: Calvino's Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler); Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; 1. Simulation; 2. Story Development, Literary Evaluation, and the Place of Character; 3. A Narrative Idiolect; 4. Principles and Parameters of Storytelling.

5. Argument and Metaphor in Brecht and Kafka6. Emplotment; Afterword; Works Cited; Index.

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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