[lit-ideas] Re: Dreaming by the Book
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:00:32 -0400
An excerpt from the central premise of _Dreaming by the Book_ to raise
curiosity:
We shall find that imaginary vivacity [in reading prose fiction] comes
about by reproducing the deep structure of perception. On one level this
is wholly unsurprising: if imagining is a mimesis of perception, then
successful imagining will of course come about through the accuracy or
acuity of the mimesis. Still it seems amazing that what in perception
comes to be imitated is not only the sensory outcome (the way something
looks or sounds or feels beneath the hands) but the actual structure of
production that gave rise to the perception; that is, the material
conditions that made it look, sound, or feel the way it did.
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