272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of "cognitive realism" can be a critically productive framework for exploring how textual evocations of cognition correspond to or diverge from... Read more
Introduction: Cognitive Realism, Kafka, and Literary Theory 1. Perception without Pictures 2. Re-Envisioning the Imagination 3. Kafka’s Poetics of Perception in Der Proceß 4.Feeling From New Perspectives Conclusion: Cognitive Realism in Kafka and Beyond
Biography
Emily T. Troscianko is Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at St John's College, University of Oxford, UK. Recent publications include "The Cognitive Realism of Memory in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary" (Modern Language Review 107 (2012): 772-95) and "Cognitive Realism and Memory in Proust’s Madeleine Episode" (Memory Studies, OnlineFirst 2013).
