Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. On the Obsessions of Selfhood 46
6. The Biogenesis of Ethics and the Challenge of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 78
7. On the Emotional Intentionality of Criminal Protagonists 113
8. On the Systemic Properties of Recollection 143
9. Crying and the Ambiguity of Shakespeare’s 184
10. Toward a Cognitive Theory of Proverbs 208
11. Romance and the Universality of Human Nature 236
12. Suspense .... 263
13. Laughter’s Shortfall 289
14. Cognition, Conversion, and the Patterns of Religious Experience 318
15. Folk Psychology and Theory of Mind John Marston’s The Fawn 335
16. Notes 363
17. Bibliography 445
18. Index 473