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“'Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself': Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History"
- Author(s):
- Lisa Zunshine (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900, LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Russian and Eurasian, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
- Subject(s):
- Psychology and literature, Cognitive psychology, American literature, History, Russian literature, Chinese literature, Philosophy of mind
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- The Plum in the Golden Vase, Lu Xun, Eileen Chang, Wu Ching-Tzu, Cao Xueqin, Cognitive literary studies, American literary history, Theory of mind
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6N25M
- Abstract:
- How does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and experiment with our mindreading, by “embedding” mental states within mental states at a much greater frequency and intensity than happens either in our daily social interactions or in other written discourses. In this essay, I attempt to historicize this claim, exploring how the pattern of such embedment has changed over time in different national literary traditions, with a brief look at eighteenth-century Russian literature and a particular emphasis on ancient and modern China.
- Notes:
- 认知诗学 (Cognitive Poetics) is a journal published by the Chinese Association of Cognitive Poetics and Cognitive Literary Studies (认知诗学与认知文学研究会: http://www.cognitive-poetics.com/cn)
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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