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From Mind to Text
Continuities and Breaks Between Cognitive, Aesthetic and Textualist Approaches to Literature
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From Mind to Text: Continuities and Breaks Between Cognitive, Aesthetic and Textualist Approaches to Literature explores the historical context of theory formation and of its contemporary status, including an overview of debates about theory’s role in literary studies provided both by representatives of theory itself, as well as by those who distance themselves from it.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Theories and Institutions
Again, Theory
Theories and Theorrhea
Analytic Philosophy of Art?
Chapter Two: Literature and Art
Before Theory
Works and Texts
Authors, Scriptors, Intentions
Moderately Naturalist Perspective on the Artistic Conventions
Chapter Three: Literature and Minds
Language and Cognition
Empathy and Emotions
Researching Universals
Information Processing
Chapter Four: Values and Competence
The Sublime, The Beautiful and the Everyday
Artistic and Aesthetic Values
Natural and Competent Responses
Chapter Five: Levels of Explanation
Emergent Structures and Special Sciences
Special Sciences and Literary Studies
Psycho-historical Framework for Art Appreciation
Surface and Deep Interpretation
Naked Apes, Flocks of Seagulls, Procrustean Beds
Conclusion
Index
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Biography
Bartosz Stopel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.