192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works - from Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass to Dorothy Richardson, Alice Munro, and J. M. Coetzee. His scholarly analyses are also intertwined with more personal reflections, on for example his mother’s memory... Read more
Foreword: Shame Introduction: Know Thyself 1. Basic Principles 2. Kinds of Self 3. Becoming Oneself: Society and Identity 4. Understanding Ourselves: On Empathy 5. Shame, Guilt, and Trauma 6. Subjectivity and Loneliness Afterword: A Question of Dignity Works Cited
Biography
Patrick Colm Hogan is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of over twenty books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists (Routledge, 2003), Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition (Routledge, 2013), and Literature and Emotion (Routledge, 2018).
