Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Chapter 1 Introduction
Importance of Perspective Taking
Toward an Interdisciplinary Account of Literary Perspective Taking
Goals and Anticipated Contributions
Book Overview
Chapter 2 An Analysis of Perspective and Perspective Taking
Defining a Perspective
Defining Perspective Taking
Perspective Taking As Analogy
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 3 Perspective Taking in Life
Mind Reading
Perspective Taking and Empathy

Neuroscience of Perspective Taking
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 4 Perspective Taking and Literature
Processes Related to Perspective Taking
First-Order Textual Features
Second-Order Textual Features
Perspective Taking and the Narrator
The Reader and the Character
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 5 Processing Components of Perspective Taking
Retrieval of Personal Knowledge and Experience
Construction of Similarity
Analogical Inferencing
Perspective-Taking Dynamics
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 6 Challenges to Perspective Taking

Available Information
Variations in Perspectival Resonance
Perspective and Character Complexity
Individual and Contextual Differences
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 7 Evidence for Analogy in Perspective Taking
Measuring Perspective Taking
A Perspective-Taking Questionnaire
Experiment 1: Cultural Knowledge
Experiment 2: Tracking Remindings during Reading
Experiment 3: Priming Prior Experience
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 8 Conclusions
A Theory of Perspective Taking As a Process of Analogical Inferencing
What Are the Benefits of Perspective Taking?

Future Empirical Directions
Closing Remarks
References
Index