LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when itexplains the different ways our brains convert stories poems plays and filmsinto p... » 

LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when itexplains the different ways our brains convert stories poems plays and filmsinto pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book we find ourselvesabsorbed unaware of our bodies or our surroundings. We dont doubt theexistence of SpiderMan or Harry Potter and we have real feelings about thesepurely imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly because we know wecannot act to change what we are seeing. This is only one of the special waysour brains behave to with literature ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAINreveals. 474 pp. 13 ill. «