Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Part I: Attributing Minds
1 Why Did Peter Walsh Tremble?
2 What Is Mind-Reading (Also Known as Theory of Mind)?
3 Theory of Mind, Autism, and Fiction: Four Caveats
4 ¿Effortless¿ Mind-Reading
5 Why Do We Read Fiction?
6 The Novel as a Cognitive Experiment
7 Can Cognitive Science Tell Us Why We Are Afraid of Mrs. Dalloway?
8 The Relationship between a ¿Cognitive¿ Analysis of Mrs. Dalloway and the Larger Field of Literary Studies
9 Woolf, Pinker, and the Project of Interdisciplinarity
Part II: Tracking Minds
1 Whose Thought Is It, Anyway?
2 Metarepresentational Ability and Schizophrenia
3 Everyday Failures of Source-Monitoring
4 Monitoring Fictional States of Mind
5 ¿Fiction¿ and ¿History¿
6 Tracking Minds in Beowulf
7 Don Quixote and His Progeny
8 Source-Monitoring, ToM, and the Figure of the Unreliable Narrator
9 Source-Monitoring and the Implied Author
10 Richardson¿s Clarissa: The Progress of the Elated Bridegroom
(a) Mind-Games in Clarissa
(b) Enter the Reader
11 Nabokov¿s Lolita: The Deadly Demon Meets and Destroys the Tenderhearted Boy
(a) ¿Distributed¿ Mind-Reading I: A ¿comic, clumsy, wavering Prince Charming¿
(b) ¿Distributed¿ Mind-Reading II: An ¿immortal daemon disguised as a female child¿
(c) How Do We Know When Humbert Is Reliable?
Part III : Concealing Minds
1 ToM and the Detective Novel: What Does It Take to Suspect Everybody?
2 Why Is Reading a Detective Story a Lot like Lifting Weights at the Gym?
3 Metarepresentationality and Some Recurrent Patterns of the Detective Story
(a) One Liar Is Expensive, Several Liars Are Insupportable
(b) There Are No Material Clues Independent from Mind-Reading
(c) Mind-Reading Is an Equal Opportunity Endeavor
(d) ¿Alone Again, Naturally¿
4 A Cognitive Evolutionary Perspective: Always Historicize!
Conclusion: Why Do We Read (and Write) Fiction?
1 Authors Meet Their Readers
2 Is This Why We Read Fiction? Surely, There Is More to It!
Notes
Bibliography
Index