Author: Alkisti Kallinikou

Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 164 pp. £68.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780190845476 It is a well-known fact that realist novels are characterized by their verisimilitude. In When Fiction Feels Real, Elaine Auyoung sets out to explore some of the ways these texts achieve this and how they put readers ‘into relation with fictional…