| Titre : |
Cognition, Literature and History |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Buch | Hardcover, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
new york : Archives Contemporaines |
| Année de publication : |
2014 |
| Importance : |
277p. |
| Format : |
152 x 229 mm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-415-72209-4 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
809 Histoire, analyse, critique littéraires générales (et portant sur plus d'une littérature nationale) |
| Résumé : |
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows 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. |
Cognition, Literature and History [texte imprimé] / Buch | Hardcover, Auteur . - new york : Archives Contemporaines, 2014 . - 277p. ; 152 x 229 mm. ISBN : 978-0-415-72209-4 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
809 Histoire, analyse, critique littéraires générales (et portant sur plus d'une littérature nationale) |
| Résumé : |
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows 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. |
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Cognition, Literature and History
