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

Abstract

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
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