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...
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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 di
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Integrating the Study of Cognition, Literature, and History; PART I Kinds of (Literary) Cognition: Cognitive Genre Theory and History; 1 Melodies of Mind: Poetic Forms as Cognitive Structures; 2 Toward a Cognitive Sociology of Genres; 3 Novelty, Canonicity, and Competing Simulations in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; 4 Reassessing the Concept of "Ideology Transfer": On Evolved Cognitive Tendencies in the Literary Reception Process; PART II The Moral of the Story: Affective Narratology
5 Conceptual Blending, Embodied Well-Being, and the Making of Twelfth-Century Narrative Literature6 Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdos's Doña Perfecta, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, and Andalusian Culture; 7 National Identity, Narrative Universals, and Guilt: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing; PART III Perceiving Others and Narrating Selves: Theories of Mind and Literature; 8 The Phenomenology of Person Perception; 9 The Mind of a Pícaro: Lázaro de Tormes; 10 Fiction as a Cognitive Challenge: Explorations into Alternative Forms of Selfhood and Experience
PART IV A Culture of Science and a Science of Culture: Theory and History of Cognitive (Literary) Studies11 Romantic Reflections: Toward a Cultural History of Introspection in Mind Science; 12 Toward a Science of Criticism: Aesthetic Values, Human Nature, and the Standard of Taste; Epilogue: Literary Theory and Cognitive Studies; Contributors; Index
