This book goes straight to the basic human questions about literature when
it explains how our brains convert the imaginary events of stories, poems,
plays, and films into real pleasure. Our brains can do this, because we know
in our frontal lobes that we cannot act to change our posteriorly processed
perceptions of the literary work. This is only one of the special ways our
brains react as we go from the creation of literature to being transported,
to “poetic faith,” to enjoyment, to meaning, and finally to evaluation. Each
of these parts of the literary process draws on brain processes in an
unusual way. *Literature and the Brain * describes and explains these brain
changes, giving us a new understanding of what we do when we do literature
and why we do it.

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