Cognitive Literary Science
Dialogues between Literature and Cognition
Published on 9. February 2017
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-19-049686-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. The tripartite structure of the volume reflects a more ambitious conception of what cognitive approaches to literature are and could be than is usually encountered, and thus aims both to map out and to advance the field. The first section corresponds to what most people think of as "cognitive poetics" or "cognitive literary studies": the study of literature by literary scholars drawing on cognitive-scientific methods, findings, and/or debates to yield insights into literature. The second section demonstrates that literary scholars needn't only make use of cognitive science to study literature, but can also, in a reciprocally interdisciplinary manner, use a cognitively informed perspective on literature to offer benefits back to the cognitive sciences. Finally, the third section, "literature in cognitive science", showcases some of the ways in which literature can be a stimulating object of study and a fertile testing ground for theories and models, not only to literary scholars but also to cognitive scientists, who here engage with some key questions in cognitive literary studies with the benefit of their in-depth scientific knowledge and training.
Reviews / Votes
Scholars working in this field will find in this volume a productive framework for a transdisciplinary approach to any aspect of the mind. * Nick Lavery, British Society for Literature and Science *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
713 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-049686-9 (9780190496869)
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Michael Burke | Emily T. Troscianko
Cognitive Literary Science
Dialogues between Literature and Cognition
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1st Edition
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Michael Burke | Emily T. Troscianko
Cognitive Literary Science
Dialogues between Literature and Cognition
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1st Edition
OUP eBook
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Persons
Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University). He is the author of Literary Reading Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (2011). He has published numerous chapters and articles on the topic of cognitive literary science. His areas of interest also include classical rhetoric, stylistics, and pragmatics.
Emily T. Troscianko is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, and in 2014-15 was a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, collaborating with Beat, the leading UK eating disorders charity. The book from her doctoral thesis, Kafka's cognitive realism, came out with Routledge in 2014, and she is now working at the intersection of the cognitive and medical humanities, while co-authoring, with Susan Blackmore, the third edition of the psychology textbook Consciousness: An Introduction.
Emily T. Troscianko is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, and in 2014-15 was a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, collaborating with Beat, the leading UK eating disorders charity. The book from her doctoral thesis, Kafka's cognitive realism, came out with Routledge in 2014, and she is now working at the intersection of the cognitive and medical humanities, while co-authoring, with Susan Blackmore, the third edition of the psychology textbook Consciousness: An Introduction.
Content
Introduction: A Window on to the Landscape of Cognitive Literary Science
Emily T. Troscianko and Michael Burke
SECTION I: LITERATURE THROUGH A COGNITIVE LENS
Chapter 1: Scientific Concepts in Literary Studies: Towards Criteria for the Meeting of Literature and Cognitive Science
Marcus Hartner
Chapter 2: Towards a 'Natural' Bond of Cognitive and Affective Narratology
Caroline Pirlet and Andreas Wirag
Chapter 3: 'Annihilation of Self': The Cognitive Challenge of the Sublime
David Miall
Chapter 4: The Space between Your Ears: Construal Level Theory, Cognitive Science, and Science Fiction
James Carney
Chapter 5: Patterns of Thought: Narrative and Verse
Brian Boyd
SECTION II: COGNITION THROUGH A LITERARY LENS
Chapter 6: Simulation and the Structure of Emotional Memory: Learning from Arthur Miller's After the Fall.
Patrick Colm Hogan
Chapter 7: Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction
Merja Polvinen
Chapter 8: Fantastic Cognition
Karin Kukkonen
Chapter 9: Feedback in Reading and Disordered Eating
Emily T. Troscianko
Chapter 10: Animal Minds across Discourse Domains
David Herman
SECTION III: LITERATURE AND COGNITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Chapter 11: Embodied Dynamics in Literary Experience
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Chapter 12: How Readers' Lives Affect Narrative Experiences
Richard J. Gerrig and Micah L. Mumper
Chapter 13: On Truth and Fiction
Keith Oatley
Chapter 14: Under Pressure: Norms, Rules, and Coercion in Linguistic Analyses and Literary Readings
Alexander Bergs
Chapter 15: Affective and Aesthetic Processes in Literary Reading: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective
Arthur M. Jacobs
Emily T. Troscianko and Michael Burke
SECTION I: LITERATURE THROUGH A COGNITIVE LENS
Chapter 1: Scientific Concepts in Literary Studies: Towards Criteria for the Meeting of Literature and Cognitive Science
Marcus Hartner
Chapter 2: Towards a 'Natural' Bond of Cognitive and Affective Narratology
Caroline Pirlet and Andreas Wirag
Chapter 3: 'Annihilation of Self': The Cognitive Challenge of the Sublime
David Miall
Chapter 4: The Space between Your Ears: Construal Level Theory, Cognitive Science, and Science Fiction
James Carney
Chapter 5: Patterns of Thought: Narrative and Verse
Brian Boyd
SECTION II: COGNITION THROUGH A LITERARY LENS
Chapter 6: Simulation and the Structure of Emotional Memory: Learning from Arthur Miller's After the Fall.
Patrick Colm Hogan
Chapter 7: Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction
Merja Polvinen
Chapter 8: Fantastic Cognition
Karin Kukkonen
Chapter 9: Feedback in Reading and Disordered Eating
Emily T. Troscianko
Chapter 10: Animal Minds across Discourse Domains
David Herman
SECTION III: LITERATURE AND COGNITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Chapter 11: Embodied Dynamics in Literary Experience
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Chapter 12: How Readers' Lives Affect Narrative Experiences
Richard J. Gerrig and Micah L. Mumper
Chapter 13: On Truth and Fiction
Keith Oatley
Chapter 14: Under Pressure: Norms, Rules, and Coercion in Linguistic Analyses and Literary Readings
Alexander Bergs
Chapter 15: Affective and Aesthetic Processes in Literary Reading: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective
Arthur M. Jacobs