Vera Tobin: 1 book
Elements of Surprise
Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire...
