The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published its 21st book, Lisa Zunshine's Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. By looking at literature in terms of recent research in cognitive psychology, Zunshine offers both a compelling revision of narrative theory and provocative new interpretations of a variety of novels from Richardson's Clarissa to Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. A description of the book, as well as the rest of the series, can be found at http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/Series%20Pages/tin.htm
