Literature and the BrainLITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book, we find ourselves "absorbed," unaware of our bodies or our surroundings. We don't doubt the existence of Spider Man or Harry Potter, and we have real feelings about these purely imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly, because we know