CHAPTER 1 Knowledge of the world 21
Fact and fiction 22
Realism,authenticity and representation 27
Social knowledge and intentionality 31
Possible worlds 35
Cognitive strategies 45
CHAPTER 2 Three possible worlds 49
An impossible world 49
A probable world 56
An improbable world 67
CHAPTER 3 Knowledge of other people 75
Why do we care about literary characters? 75
Where do emotions come from? 81
Empathy and identification 84
Representation and metarepresentation 88
Higher-order mind-reading 90
Emotions and empathy in multimedial narratives 94
CHAPTER 4 Creative mind-reading 101
Emotion ekphrasis:Emotions in multimedial texts 101
Diegetic and extradiegetic emotions 101
Reading non-human faces 108
Higher-cognitive emotions 113
Emotions and power hierarchies 121
In defence of action-oriented texts 127
Multiple protagonists and mind-reading 127
Emotions,empathy and embodiment 133
CHAPTER 5 Knowledge of self 141
The self-reflective mind 142
Retrospection 144
Memory and narration 145
The here and now 149
CHAPTER 6 Memory of the present 155
Deleted memory 155
Amplified memory 163
Distorted memory 169
CHAPTER 7 Ethical knowledge 177
Can children’s literature be ethically neutral? 178
Ethics and genre 182
Breaking rules 184
Whose ethics? 186
Can fictional characters have a free will? 190
The ethics of happy endings 193
Intentionality,revisited 195
CHAPTER 8 The ethics of address and the ethics of response 199
Being guilty and feeling guilty 199
Desire and duty 200
The guiltless trickster 206
“Time out of joint” 210
First comes food,ethics later 215
How to read a children’s book and why 225
Bibliography 229
Index 245