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
2016-01-01
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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 in questo prodotto:
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