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The Work of Fiction - Cognition, Culture, and Complexity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Work of Fiction - Cognition, Culture, and Complexity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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
authors explore both narrative and dramatic genres, uncovering the
tensions among presumably universal cognitive processes, and the
local contexts within which complex literary texts are produced.
Alan Richardson's opening essay evaluates current approaches to the
study of literature and cognition, locating them on the map of
recent literary studies, indicating their most compelling
developments to date, and suggesting the most promising future
directions. The seven essays that follow provide innovative
readings of topics ranging from Shakespeare (Othello, Macbeth,
Cymbeline, The Rape of Lucrece) through Samuel Richardson's
Clarissa, to contemporary authors Ian McEwan and Gilbert
Sorrentino. They underscore some of the limitations of new
historicist and post-structuralist approaches to literary cultural
studies while affirming the value of supplementing rather than
supplanting them with insights and methods drawn from cognitive and
evolutionary theory. Together, they demonstrate the analytical
power of considering these texts in the context of recent studies
of cultural universals, 'theory of mind,' cognitive categorization
and genre, and neural-materialist theories of language and
consciousness. This groundbreaking collection holds appeal for a
broad audience, including students and teachers of literary theory,
literary history, cultural studies, and literature and science
studies.
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