Elaine Auyoung describes in loving and persuasive detail the phenomenology of reading realist fiction, attending to how novelists activate sensory, affective, and intellectual responses in readers ... The beauty of this book is its nuanced consideration of alternative possibilities in representational strategies on the part of a handful of canonical novelists.
Elaine Auyoung is McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor of English, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences.