Cognition, Literature, and History (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 272 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317936862
Related ISBNs:: 9781315858487, 9781138547957, 9781138547957, 9780415722094, 9780415722094
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/08/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mark J. Bruhn
Edited by:: Donald R. Wehrs