Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the
world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and
our desires and dreams. It differs from science in its aims and
methods, but Babuts shows in other respects that literature has
much common ground with science. Both aim for an authentic version
of truth. To this end, literature employs metaphors, and it does so
in a manner similar to that of scientific inquiry.
The cognitive view does not imply that there is a one-to-one
correlation between the world and text, that meaning belongs to the
author, or that literature is equivalent to perception. What it
does maintain is that meaning is crucially dependent on mnemonic
initiatives and that without memory, the world remains meaningless.
Nicolae Babuts claims that at the interface with the printed page,
readers process texts in a manner similar to the way they explain
the visible world: in segments or units of meaning or dynamic
patterns.
Babuts argues that humans achieve recognition by integrating
stimulus sequences with corresponding patterns that recognize and
interpret each segment of a text. Memory produces meaning from
these patterns. In harmony with its goals, memory may adopt
specific strategies to deal with different stimuli. Dynamic
patterns link the unit of processing with the unit of meaning. In
sum, Babuts proposes that meaning is achieved through metaphors and
narrative, and that both are ways to reach cognitive goals. This
original study offers perspectives that will interest cognitive
psychologists, as well as those simply interested in the process
through which literature stirs the human imagination.
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