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Lisa Zunshine
Lisa Zunshine is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author and editor of eleven books, including Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (2005), Why We Read... show more

Lisa Zunshine is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author and editor of eleven books, including Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (2005), Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006), Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818 (2006), Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (2008), Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 (2009), Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (2010), Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture (2012), and The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015).
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MochaMike
MochaMike rated it 15 years ago
Some rereading to do before posting a review. Good stuff, much liberated from other sources, more to follow.
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Caleb J. Ross' booklikes rated it 16 years ago
As Zunshine summarizes at the end of WHY WE READ FICTION, we read fiction because “fiction helps us to pattern in newly nuanced ways our emotions and perceptions; it bestows ‘new knowledge or increased understanding’ and gives ‘the chance for a sharpened ethical sense’; and it creates new forms of m...
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