Culture and cognition : the boundaries of literary and scientific inquiry /
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| Author / Creator: | Schleifer, Ronald |
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| Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xxi, 269 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1411228 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Science, Cognition, and Culture
- I. Narrative Structures. 1. Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures and the Nature of Meaning. 2. Structures of Meaning: The Logic of Narrative and the Constitution of Literary Genres. 3. Why Are There Old People? Narration, Natural History, and the Situation of Cognition
- II. Cases of Cognition. 4. Special Cases: Freud, Einstein, and the Dream of Understanding. 5. Psychoanalysis and Narration: Lacan, Greimas, and the Desire of Cognition. 6. The Plain Sense of Things: Aging and the Rhetoric of Narration
- III. Cultural Discourse. 7. The Institution of Criticism: Pedagogy, Publishing, and Oppositional Criticism.