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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
How to Read a Mind: an Introduction to Understanding Literary Characters
The University of Nottingham
This course is an introduction to cognitive poetics: the use of cognitive science to understand literary reading.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Peter Stockwell
Professor of Literary Linguistics
The University of Nottingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the literary creation of fictional minds
- Compare different readerly realisations of characters
- Explain the conceptual mechanisms involved in fiction
- Discuss comparable experiences of immersion
- Evaluate the use of cognitive science in literary experience
Syllabus
- the application of cognitive science in understanding literary reading
- Theory of Mind, characterisation and empathy
- building a fictional world, using text world theory
- prototypicality, and the richness of fictional people
- the nature of fictional minds and real minds
- the experience of engaging with fictional people
- understanding literary immersion, distraction and transportation
- the textual patterns that help to achieve effective fictional characters
Issued on 2nd November 2016
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