This article considers Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence through the lenses of cognitive literary criticism. Building upon classic narratology, it analyzes how Wharton capitalizes on our cognitive proclivities--in particular our mind-reading capabilities--so as to tease, rather than help, our understanding of the complex social relations at work in the novel
Mind Reading and Mind Blindness in The Age of Innocence. A Cognitive Perspective / Martínez Benedí, Pilar. - In: IPERSTORIA. - ISSN 2281-4582. - 8:Autunno(2016), pp. 266-273.
Mind Reading and Mind Blindness in The Age of Innocence. A Cognitive Perspective.
Martínez Benedí, Pilar
2016
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This article considers Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence through the lenses of cognitive literary criticism. Building upon classic narratology, it analyzes how Wharton capitalizes on our cognitive proclivities--in particular our mind-reading capabilities--so as to tease, rather than help, our understanding of the complex social relations at work in the novelFile allegati a questo prodotto
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