Reading is Believing

In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Once‐Told Tales. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 124–143 (2011-04-15)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Art of Silent Reading It's All in the Mind Ideal Presence and Radford's Problem Faulty Foundations Home away from Home? The Text and the Real Seeing and Being Told Suspension of Disbelief Yet Again.

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reading is believing ‐ the art of silent reading   two radically different ways, experiencing narrative fictions ‐ and fictional stories   modes of experiencing fiction ‐ literature in the West, and Greek experience of drama and epic poetry   first “philosophical” account ‐ in silently read fiction, the eighteenth century, and in Britain   ideal presence and Radford's problem ‐ Elements of Criticism, aesthetic treatise of Scottish Enlightenment   memory, Kames' psychological stepping stone ‐ emotions, arousal in literary fiction   Kames' solution of a proto‐ Radford problem ‐ both theatrical representations   faulty foundations, and Addison's picture of what goes on in one's mind ‐ silently read experience of literary fiction   the text and the real ‐ difference between a play and a novel   plays and movies, more emotional clout ‐ than novels, silently read and perfectly benign

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