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Such Stuff as Dreams: The Mindset of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and thoughts of both readers and writers.
- Demonstrates how reading fiction can donate to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves
- Informed by the latest emotional research which focuses on, for example, how id with fictional people occurs, and how books can improve public skills
- Explores traditional areas of fiction, including personality, plot, arranging, and theme, and a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cues
- Includes considerable end-notes, which surface the task in emotional studies
- Features excerpts from fiction, that are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others
