Cognitive literary science : dialogues between literature and cognition /

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Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (369 pages)
Language:English
Series:Cognition and poetics
Cognition and poetics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540840
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Other authors / contributors:Burke, Michael, 1964- editor.
Troscianko, Emily, editor.
ISBN:9780190496876
0190496878
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science.
Other form:Print version: Burke, Michael. Cognitive Literary Science : Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2016
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Cognitive Literary Science; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction:€A€Window on to the Landscape of Cognitive Literary Science; Part I: Literature through a Cognitive€Lens; 1. Scientific Concepts in Literary Studies:€Towards Criteria for the Meeting of Literature and Cognitive Science; 2. Towards a 'Natural' Bond of Cognitive and Affective Narratology; 3. 'Annihilation of Self':€The Cognitive Challenge of the Sublime; 4. The Space between Your Ears:€Construal Level Theory, Cognitive Science, and Science Fiction.
  • 5. Patterns of Thought:€Narrative and VersePart II: Cognition through a Literary€Lens; 6. Simulation and the Structure of Emotional Memory:€Learning from Arthur Miller's After the Fall; 7. Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction; 8. Fantastic Cognition; 9. Feedback in Reading and Disordered Eating; 10. Animal Minds across Discourse Domains; Part III: Literature and Cognition in Cognitive Science; 11. Embodied Dynamics in Literary Experience; 12. How Readers' Lives Affect Narrative Experiences; 13. On Truth and Fiction.
  • 14. Under Pressure:€Norms, Rules, and Coercion in Linguistic Analyses and Literary Readings15. Affective and Aesthetic Processes in Literary Reading:€A€Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective; Index.