1st Edition
The Work of Fiction Cognition, Culture, and Complexity
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant results of a largely unprecedented combination of cultural and cognitive analysis. The... Read more
Contents: Preface, Ellen Spolsky; Studies in literature and cognition: a field map (introduction), Alan Richardson; Stories and morals: emotion, cognitive exempla, and the Arabic Aristotelians, Patrick Colm Hogan; Women's work is chastity: Lucretia, Cymbeline, and cognitive impenetrability, Ellen Spolsky; Embodied literature: a cognitive-poststructuralist approach to genre, F. Elizabeth Hart; 'Fair is foul': Macbeth and binary logic, Mary Thomas Crane; Richardson's Clarissa and a theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine; God novels, Blakey Vermeule; Matter into imagination: the cognitive realism of Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Joseph Tabbi; Index.
Biography
Alan Richardson is Professor of English at Boston College, USA and author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind. Ellen Spolsky is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University and author of Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World.
