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A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics - Neoclassicism and the Novel (Hardcover)
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A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics - Neoclassicism and the Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Cognition and Poetics
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This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates
around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and
feeling human mind. Three key rules of neoclassicism, namely,
poetic justice (the rewards and punishments of characters in the
plot), the unities (the coherence of the fictional world and its
extensions through the imagination) and decorum (the inferential
connections between characters and their likely actions), are
reconsidered in light of social cognition, embodied cognition and
probabilistic, predictive cognition. The meeting between
neoclassical criticism and today's research psychology, neurology
and philosophy of mind yields a new perspective for cognitive
literary study. Neoclassicism has a crucial contribution to make to
current debates around the role of literature in cultural and
cognition. Literary critics writing at the time of the scientific
revolution developed a perspective on literature the question of
how literature engages minds and bodies as its central concern. A
Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics traces the cognitive dimension of
these critical debates in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
Britain and puts them into conversation with today's cognitive
approaches to literature. Neoclassical theory is then connected to
the praxis of eighteenth-century writers in a series of case
studies that trace how these principles shaped the emerging
narrative form of the novel. The continuing relevance of
neoclassicism also shows itself in the rise of the novel, as A
Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics illustrates through examples
including Pamela, Tom Jones and the Gothic novel.
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