Authors: Patrick Colm Hogan
Published: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21002107
Source: Full article
AbstractThe authors explain our attraction to strange, literary places as resulting from our attraction to strange places in real life. I believe this is correct and important. The aim of the following commentary is to show that their main conclusion is closely related to – even (retrospectively) predictable from – the operation of simulation and the consequences of that operation for storytelling.