Cognition, literature and history /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Description:	x, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 22 Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 22.
Subject:	Cognition in literature. Philosophy of mind in literature. Poetics -- Psychological aspects. Historical criticism (Literature) Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Discourse analysis, Literary. Cognition in literature. Discourse analysis, Literary. Historical criticism (Literature) Literature -- Theory, etc. Philosophy of mind in literature. Poetics -- Psychological aspects. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9861762

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Other authors / contributors:	Bruhn, Mark J., 1962- editor of compilation. Wehrs, Donald R., editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780415722094 (hardback) 0415722098 (hardback) 9781315858487 (ebk)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Cognition, Literature and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. This volume integrates cognitive-scientific research with literary-historical concerns in order to show 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"--

Table of Contents:

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. Towards 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 Secular Literature
6. Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdos' Dona 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 Pcaro: Lzaro 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) Studies
11. 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

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