TKAM Intertextual References

Question 1

• Reading about their inner lives helps me to make sense of my own.

Answer 1

Dani Shapiro

Question 2

• “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”

Answer 2

— George R. R. Martin

Question 3

• They noticed heightened activity in brain regions linked to movement and sensations. Such changes mean you can connect

Answer 3

with a character in such a way that your brain thinks you’re in the character’s body moving and feeling their world.

A study from Emory University

Question 4

• it may also give you the delusion that you “understand” experiences that are much more complex diverse and nuanced.

Answer 4

• Dr Nolan

Question 5

• Shared reading experiences are specifically associated with improved psychological wellbeing

Answer 5

according to a study published in the British Medical Journal

Question 6

• “reading the written work of others

Answer 6

you enter their minds. In coming to terms with the mind of another

Question 7

• Perhaps because a reader

Answer 7

sits with a novel for hours days

Question 8

• The intimacy of a reader’s relationship with a fictional narrator’s interior dialogue is perhaps one of its most singular characteristics

Answer 8

—a process Schultz describes as turning “the inner lives of oppressed characters outward.”

Question 9

• “If truth is not recognisable

Answer 9

it becomes the imagination of others” – Patrick White