Saving Fiction invites readers to consider the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts, teaching us how to think about the stuff of daily life, animate and inanimate, as abstractions.

• Table of Contents


• Preface: An Invitation


• Chapter 1: Embodiment and its Entailments


• Chapter 2: Lyrics and their Frames


• Chapter 3: Genre Change and Narrative Recovery (Maybe)


• Chapter 4: Intelligence on a Communal Scale: An Enriched Theory of Distributed Cognition


• Chapter 5: Distributed Misunderstanding


• Chapter 6: Affording Justice through sinderesis: an early modern embodiment theory


• Chapter 7: Balance and Imbalance


• Chapter 8: The Skepticism of Grotesques: 'Between the Known and the Unknown'


• Chapter 9: Detach and Reuse


• Notes


• References


• Index

Ellen Spolsky is Professor of English Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her previous books include Word vs. Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind (SUNY Press, 1993).