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Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Elements of Surprise Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Author: Vera Tobin
Why do some surprises delight?the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip?s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674980204
ISBN-10: 0674980204
Publication Date: 4/16/2018
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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