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Kafka's Cognitive Realism (Hardcover, New)
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Kafka's Cognitive Realism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate
Kafka's poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in
which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on
literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of "cognitive
realism" can be a critically productive framework for exploring how
textual evocations of cognition correspond to or diverge from
cognitive realities, and how this may affect real readers. In
particular, it argues that Kafka's evocations of visual perception
(including narrative perspective) and emotion can be understood as
fundamentally enactive, and that in this sense they are
"cognitively realistic". These cognitively realistic qualities are
likely to establish a compellingly direct connection with the
reader's imagination, but because they contradict
folk-psychological assumptions about how our minds work, they may
also leave the reader unsettled. This is the first time a fully
interdisciplinary research paradigm has been used to explore a
single author's fictional works in depth, opening up avenues for
future research in cognitive literary science.
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