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    《为学而读--儿童文学的认知进路/新世纪英语语言文学界面研究丛书》是荷兰约翰·本杰明出版公司的“儿童文学、文化与认知”(Children’s Literature，Culture，and Cognition)系列丛书之一。作者玛丽亚·尼科拉耶娃是剑桥大学教育学院教授，研究领域包括文学理论、北欧文学、比较文学、符号学、叙事学、认知诗学等。她曾获莫斯科国立语言大学硕士和斯德哥尔摩大学比较文学博士学位，在斯德哥尔摩大学教授儿童文学和文学理论长达25年之久，兼任美国麻省大学、圣地亚哥州立大学、芬兰奥伯学术大学客座教授，英国伍斯特大学荣誉教授，多家国际学术期刊编委和《牛津儿童文学百科全书》资深编辑。本书基于认知心理学和脑科学的研究成果，开创性地研究了年轻读者对小说的认知和情感投入，探索了小说如何激发感知、注意力、想象力和其他认知活动，并为年轻读者开拓了全新的文学思维方式。作为认知批评研究的一个重要里程碑，本书提供了令人信服的实证，证明阅读小说对于年轻人的智力、情感和社闪发展是不可或缺的。

Acknowledgements
What is cognitive criticism and what's in it for children's literature research?
CHAPTER 1
Knowledge of the world
Fact and fiction
Realism, authenticity and representation
Social knowledge and intentionality
Possible worlds
Cognitive strategies
CHAPTER 2
Three possible worlds
An impossible world
A probable world
An improbable world
CHAPTER 3
Knowledge of other people
Why do we care about literary characters?
Where do emotions come from?
Empathy and identification
Representation and metarepresentation
Higher-order mind-reading 9o
Emotions and empathy in multimedial narratives
CHAPTER 4
Creative mind-reading
Emotion ekphrasis: Emotions in multimedial texts lOl
Diegetic and extradiegetic emotions lOl
Reading non-human faces 1o
Higher-cognitive emotions
Emotions and power hierarchies
In defence of action-oriented texts
Multiple protagonists and mind-reading
Emotions, empathy and embodiment
CHAPTER 5
Knowledge of self
The self-reflective mind
Retrospection
Memory and narration
The here and now
CHAPTER 6
Memory of the present
Deleted memory
Amplified memory
Distorted memory
CHAPTER 7
Ethical knowledge
Can children's literature be ethically neutral?
Ethics and genre
Breaking rules
Whose ethics?
Can fictional characters have a free will? 19o
The ethics of happy endings
Intentionality, revisited
CHAPTER 8
The ethics of address and the ethics of response
Being guilty and feeling guilty
Desire and duty 2oo
The guiltless trickster
"Time out of joint" 21o
First comes food, ethics later
How to read a children's book and why
Bibliography
Index