..., desires, feelings, and intentions. I introduce the term “sociocognitive complexity” to describe patterns of embedment of mental states within mental states in fiction and discuss the role of social situations featuring third-level embedment—a mind within a mind within a mind—in prose fiction, drama...

... reading” (Galloway), and the “delirious reading” (Vadde) that undoes the fixity of reader and work to the “vicarious experience” of “non- causal bargaining” (Flesch) and the “sociocognitive complexity” entailed in imag- ining the minds of others (Zunshine), they rethink questions of reading, readings...