Imagination in Ian McEwan's Fiction: A Literary and Cognitive Science Approach - Hardcover

by Cécile Leupolt (Author)

Drawing from literary and cognitive science approaches, this book investigates contemporary British author Ian McEwan's portrayal of the imagination as a complex cognitive process, a result derived from that process or a social strategy we use for daydreaming, mind-reading, (self)deception and intellectual manipulation.

Author Biography

Cécile Leupolt currently works as a French and English teacher at a German grammar school. She previously taught English literature and language classes at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her main research interests are contemporary Anglophone literature, cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychology and discourse analysis.