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Arabic Theorists
Author_Ellen Spolsky
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cognitive
cognitive approaches to Shakespeare
Cognitive Critics
Cognitive Linguistics
cognitive literary analysis
Cognitive Literary Critique
Cognitive Literary Studies
Cognitive Literary Theory
Cognitive Narratology
Cognitive Poetics
Cognitive Rhetoric
Complex Cultural Knowledge
critique
Dense
Disengages
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evolutionary
evolutionary literary studies
Evolutionary Literary Theory
genre categorisation
God Novelist
Higher Order Consciousness
Imaginative Qualities
linguistics
lisa
Lisa Zunshine
literary
Lucretia Story
Main Characters
narrative theory
neural materialism
Personae
poetic
Poetic Syllogism
Rembrandt Van Rijn
syllogism
theory
theory of mind literature
Traditional Genre Theory
Violating
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754638490
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant results of a largely unprecedented combination of cultural and cognitive analysis. The authors explore both narrative and dramatic genres, uncovering the tensions among presumably universal cognitive processes, and the local contexts within which complex literary texts are produced. Alan Richardson's opening essay evaluates current approaches to the study of literature and cognition, locating them on the map of recent literary studies, indicating their most compelling developments to date, and suggesting the most promising future directions. The seven essays that follow provide innovative readings of topics ranging from Shakespeare (Othello, Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Rape of Lucrece) through Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, to contemporary authors Ian McEwan and Gilbert Sorrentino. They underscore some of the limitations of new historicist and post-structuralist approaches to literary cultural studies while affirming the value of supplementing rather than supplanting them with insights and methods drawn from cognitive and evolutionary theory. Together, they demonstrate the analytical power of considering these texts in the context of recent studies of cultural universals, 'theory of mind,' cognitive categorization and genre, and neural-materialist theories of language and consciousness. This groundbreaking collection holds appeal for a broad audience, including students and teachers of literary theory, literary history, cultural studies, and literature and science studies.
Alan Richardson is Professor of English at Boston College, USA and author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind. Ellen Spolsky is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University and author of Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World.
