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《為學而讀--兒童文學的認知進路/新世紀英語語言文學界面研究叢書》是荷蘭約翰·本傑明出版公司的「兒童文學、文化與認知」(Children』s Literature，Culture，and Cognition)系列叢書之一。作者瑪麗亞·尼科拉耶娃是劍橋大學教育學院教授，研究領域包括文學理論、北歐文學、比較文學、符號學、敘事學、認知詩學等。她曾獲莫斯科國立語言大學碩士和斯德哥爾摩大學比較文學博士學位，在斯德哥爾摩大學教授兒童文學和文學理論長達25年之久，兼任美國麻省大學、聖地亞哥州立大學、芬蘭奧伯學術大學客座教授，英國伍斯特大學榮譽教授，多家國際學術期刊編委和《牛津兒童文學百科全書》資深編輯。本書基於認知心理學和腦科學的研究成果，開創性地研究了年輕讀者對小說的認知和情感投入，探索了小說如何激發感知、注意力、想象力和其他認知活動，併為年輕讀者開拓了全新的文學思維方式。作為認知批評研究的一個重要里程碑，本書提供了令人信服的實證，證明閱讀小說對於年輕人的智力、情感和社閃發展是不可或缺的。
目錄
Acknowledgements
What is cognitive criticism and what's in it for children's literature research?
CHAPTER 1
Knowledge of the world
Fact and fiction
Realism, authenticity and representation
Social knowledge and intentionality
Possible worlds
Cognitive strategies
CHAPTER 2
Three possible worlds
An impossible world
A probable world
An improbable world
CHAPTER 3
Knowledge of other people
Why do we care about literary characters?
Where do emotions come from?
Empathy and identification
Representation and metarepresentation
Higher-order mind-reading 9o
Emotions and empathy in multimedial narratives
CHAPTER 4
Creative mind-reading
Emotion ekphrasis: Emotions in multimedial texts lOl
Diegetic and extradiegetic emotions lOl
Reading non-human faces 1o
Higher-cognitive emotions
Emotions and power hierarchies
In defence of action-oriented texts
Multiple protagonists and mind-reading
Emotions, empathy and embodiment
CHAPTER 5
Knowledge of self
The self-reflective mind
Retrospection
Memory and narration
The here and now
CHAPTER 6
Memory of the present
Deleted memory
Amplified memory
Distorted memory
CHAPTER 7
Ethical knowledge
Can children's literature be ethically neutral?
Ethics and genre
Breaking rules
Whose ethics?
Can fictional characters have a free will? 19o
The ethics of happy endings
Intentionality, revisited
CHAPTER 8
The ethics of address and the ethics of response
Being guilty and feeling guilty
Desire and duty 2oo
The guiltless trickster
"Time out of joint" 21o
First comes food, ethics later
How to read a children's book and why
Bibliography
Index
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