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Cognition
cognitive literary studies
cognitive poetics
cognitive studies
cognitive-scientific research
Conceptual Blending
Confers
Donald Wehrs
embodied cognition research
emotion
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Extraliterary Genres
Face To Face
figurative thinking
Follow
genre analysis approaches
historical inquiry
History
Human Suffering
interdisciplinary cognitive literary analysis
Lazarillo De Tormes
Lisa Zunshine
literary analysis
literary criticism
literary studies
literary theory methodology
literary-historical concerns
Literature
Mark Bruhn
Moebius Syndrome
mPFC Activity
Narrative Simulation
narrativity
Neural Mirroring
neuroscience
philosophy and literature
Pindaric Ode
Reuven Tsur
Secondary Genres
self-awareness
Sponge
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Strict Father Morality
structures of mind
theory of mind
theory of mind studies
Timeless
Violates
wayfinding
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415722094
  • Weight: 690g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical analysis of distinctive literary works can reciprocally enrich our understanding of those underlying structures. Applying the cognitive neuroscience of categorization, emotion, figurative thinking, narrativity, self-awareness, theory of mind, and wayfinding to the study of literary works and genres from diverse historical periods and cultures, the authors argue that literary experience proceeds from, qualitatively heightens, and selectively informs and even reforms our evolved and embodied capacities for thought and feeling. This volume investigates and locates the complex intersections of cognition, literature, and history in order to advance interdisciplinary discussion and research in poetics, literary history, and cognitive science.
About
Mark J. Bruhn is Professor of English at Regis University. His recent studies of literary cognition include two articles in a 2011 special double-issue of Poetics Today on "Exchange Values: Poetics and Cognitive Science," which he guest-edited, and a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies.　 Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of British Literature at Auburn University, editor of Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature (Delaware, 2013), co-editor (with David P. Haney) of Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature (Delaware, 2009), and author of three monographs on 20th-century African fiction and over thirty essays on critical theory and comparative literature.