
Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies
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Jennifer Marston William is a Professor of German with specializations in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and film. She is currently serving as theHead of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, USA. Jennifer's second monograph, Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film: Seeing is Not Believing, was published with Palgrave in 2017, and she has published scholarly articles and book chapters on conceptual metaphor and on literary analyses from the perspective of Theory of Mind. She is also a co-founder, with Howard Mancing, of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue, which has existed since 2008 and was recently renamed the Center for Neurohumanities.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Human Contexts of Literary Studies. - Part I: Linguistics and the Legacy of Bakhtin's Philosophy of Language.- Chapter 2. Saussurean Linguistics and Bakhtin's Critique.- Chapter 3. On Theory, Rewriting Saussure, and Chomsky.- Chapter 4. Bakhtin and His Echoes.- Part II: Biology, Language, and the Brain.- Chapter 5. Evolution and Language.- Chapter 6. The Brain.- Chapter 7. Development of the Brain.- Part III: Psychology and the Development of the "Literary Mind".- Chapter 8. The Mind at Work.- Chapter 9. Development of the Mind.- Chapter 10. Theory of Mind (ToM) . - Part IV: Context in Science and the Humanities.- Chapter 11. Cognitivism.- Chapter 12. Contextualism.- Chapter 13. Evolutionary Psychology.- Part V: Contextualism-Changing the Paradigm in Literary and Performance Studies for the Twenty-First Century.- Chapter 14. Cognitive Literary Studies.- Chapter 15. Cognitive Approaches to Performance Studies.- Chapter 16: Conclusion: The Bridging Function of Contextualism and the Cognitive Paradigm.