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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292721579
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts by : Frederick Luis Aldama

Download or read book Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general reader as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman, Lalita Pandit Hogan, Klarina Priborkin, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ellen Spolsky, and Richard Walsh. Among the works analyzed are plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected. Finally, while each of the essays is unique in style and methodological approach, together they show the way toward a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

Author : Paul Dawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100057637X
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory written by Paul Dawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Cognition, Literature, and History

Author : Mark J. Bruhn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317936868
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Literature, and History written by Mark J. Bruhn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Emotion in Old Norse Literature

Author : Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844702
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Emotion in Old Norse Literature written by Sif Ríkharðsdóttir and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029271968X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction by : Frederick Luis Aldama

Download or read book A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common--if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations. Aldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences.

Stories and Minds

Author : Lars Bernaerts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211502
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Stories and Minds written by Lars Bernaerts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in Stories and Minds, a collection of essays that discusses cutting-edge research in the field of cognitive narrative studies. Recent findings in the philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, among other disciplines, are integrated in fresh theoretical perspectives and illustrated with accompanying analyses of literary fiction. Pursuing such topics as narrative gaps, mental simulation in reading, theory of mind, and folk psychology, these essays address fundamental questions about the role of cognitive processes in literary narratives and in narrative comprehension. Stories and Minds reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind.

African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113462400X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture by : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Download or read book African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at images in children’s and adolescent literature from Africa, and the African diaspora, from Nollywood and Hollywood movies, from popular magazines, and from youth cultures encountered directly through field experiences. The findings reveal that there are many stereotypes about Africa, African youth and black cultures, and that African youth are aware of these. Since they juggle multiple identities shaped by their ethnicities, race and religion, it is often a challenge for them to define themselves. As they also share a global youth culture that transcends these cultural markers, some take advantage of media outlets to voice their concerns and participate in political struggles. Others simply use these to promote their personal interests. Contributors ponder the challenges involved in constructing unique identities, offering ideas on how African youth are doing so successfully or not in different parts of the continent and the African diaspora, and thus offer new possibilities for youth studies.

A Cognitive Approach to Ernest Hemingway's Short Fiction

Author : Gabriela Tucan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527568148
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cognitive Approach to Ernest Hemingway's Short Fiction by : Gabriela Tucan

Download or read book A Cognitive Approach to Ernest Hemingway's Short Fiction written by Gabriela Tucan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s short stories? How is it possible that the camera-like quality of his narrative can appeal to our senses and arouse our emotions? How does it capture us? With reserved narrators and protagonists engaged in laconic dialogs, his texts do not seem to say much. This book consciously revisits our responses to the Hemingway story, a belated response to his invitation to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg. What this pioneering critical endeavor seeks to understand is the thinking required in reading Hemingway’s short fiction. It proposes a cognitively informed model of reading which questions the resources of the reader’s imaginative powers. The cognitive demonstrations here are designed to have potentially larger implications for the short story’s general mode of knowing. Drawing from both cognitively oriented poetics and narratology in equal measure, this book explains what structures our interaction with literary texts.

Characters in Fictional Worlds

Author : Jens Eder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110232421
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Characters in Fictional Worlds written by Jens Eder and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today ́s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet.

The Nightly Act of Dreaming

Author : Ryan Curtis Friesen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178284659X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Nightly Act of Dreaming written by Ryan Curtis Friesen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nightly experience of dreams. Dreams and memories are inseparable, complicating and building upon one another, reminding us that knowledge of ourselves based on our memories relies upon fictionalized narratives we create for ourselves. Psychologists refer to confabulation, the creation of false or distorted memories about oneself and the world we inhabit, albeit without any conscious intention to deceive. This process and narrative, inherent in the dreamlife of all people, is at odds with the daily menu of cultural myths and politicized fictions fed to the Western world through print and social media, and for which there is constant divisiveness and disagreement. Cognitive Narratology and the Shared Identity of Myth uses insights gained from the scientific study of dreaming to explain how the shared experience of dreamlife can work in service to the common good. Primary texts and literary works, chosen for their influence on contemporary thinking, provide a rationale and historical background: From Artemidorus (a professional diviner) and Aristotle; to the Church fathers Tertullian, St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Sinesius of Cyrene; to The Wanderer (Old English poem) and Chaucers Book of the Duchess; to Coleridges writings and R. L. Stevensons A Chapter on Dreams; and to twentieth-century dream theory, and dream use in film. The purpose is to enable readers through subjective self-analysis to recognize what they share with their fellow dreamers; shared identity in formation of a shared act of dreaming creation is a universal across centuries and throughout Western culture, albeit currently misrepresented and rarely acted upon.

Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction

Author : Claudia Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192584898
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction written by Claudia Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.

The Fictional Minds of Modernism

Author : Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501359797
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Fictional Minds of Modernism written by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an inward turn a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world this collection delineates the relationship between the mind and material and social systems, rethinking our understanding of modernism's representation of cognitive and affective processes. Through analysis of a variety of international novels, short stories, and films all published roughly between 1890 and 1945 the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the so-called inward turn of modernist narratives in fact reflects the necessary interaction between mind, self, and world that constitutes knowledge, and therefore precludes any radical split between these categories. The essays examine the cognitive value of modernist narrative, showing how the perception of objects and of other people is a relational activity that requires an awareness of the constant flux of reality. The Fictional Minds of Modernism explores how modernist narratives offer insights into the real, historical world not as a mere object of contemplation but as an object of knowledge, thus bridging the gap between classical narratology and modernist experimentation.

Handbook of Narratology

Author : Peter Hühn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110316463
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Narratology by : Peter Hühn

Download or read book Handbook of Narratology written by Peter Hühn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, completely revised and expanded edition.Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research.

Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice

Author : Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030532801
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice written by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the arguments related to veg(etari)anism as they play out in the public sphere and across media, historical eras, and geographical areas. As vegan and vegetarian practices have gradually become part of mainstream culture, stemming from multiple shifts in the socio-political, cultural, and economic landscape, discursive attempts to both legitimize and delegitimize them have amplified. With 12 original chapters, this collection analyses a diverse array of these legitimating strategies, addressing the practice of veg(etari)anism through analytical methods used in rhetorical criticism and adjacent fields. Part I focuses on specific geo-cultural contexts, from early 20th century Italy, Serbia and Israel, to Islam and foundational Yoga Sutras. In Part II, the authors explore embodied experiences and legitimation strategies, in particular the political identities and ontological consequences coming from consumption of, or abstention from, meat. Part III looks at the motives, purposes and implication of veg(etari)anism as a transformative practice, from ego to eco, that should revolutionise our value hierarchies, and by extension, our futures. Offering a unique focus on the arguments at the core of the veg(etari)an debate, this collection provides an invaluable resource to scholars across a multitude of disciplines.

Getting Inside Your Head

Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421406160
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Getting Inside Your Head written by Lisa Zunshine and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the psychological concept called theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine explores the appeal of movies, novels, paintings, musicals, and reality television. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through observation of their body language; they call it theory of mind. Getting Inside Your Head uses research in theory of mind to look at movies, musicals, novels, classic Chinese opera, stand-up comedy, mock-documentaries, photography, and reality television. It follows Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy as he tries to conceal his anger, Tyler Durden as he lectures a stranger at gunpoint in Fight Club, and Ingrid Bergman as she fakes interest in horse races in Notorious. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies

Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199978069
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies written by Lisa Zunshine and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title considers how the architecture that enables human cognitive processing interacts with cultural and historical contexts. Organised into five parts (Narrative, History, and Imagination; Emotions and Empathy; The New Unconscious; Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature; and Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience), the volume considers case studies from a wide range of historical periods and national literary traditions.

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Author : K. Gevirtz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137386762
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 written by K. Gevirtz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.