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What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what
colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent
work in cognitive science, affective science, and social
psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan
begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions, such as the
degree to which a group shares beliefs, dispositions, and skills
versus the degree to which they share identification with a
category. Building on these distinctions, he defines colonialism in
terms of political, economic, and cultural autonomy, clarifying the
nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to
articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of
colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of
imperialists, differentiating these from their ideological
rationalizations, and sketching the harms caused by colonialism.
The book concludes by considering when, or if, one can achieve a
genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses
by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such
as Joseph Conrad and Athol Fugard) and by non-Europeans (such as
Kamala Markandaya and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and
informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars
interested in colonialism and empire.
What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what
colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent
work in cognitive science, affective science, and social
psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan
begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions, such as the
degree to which a group shares beliefs, dispositions, and skills
versus the degree to which they share identification with a
category. Building on these distinctions, he defines colonialism in
terms of political, economic, and cultural autonomy, clarifying the
nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to
articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of
colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of
imperialists, differentiating these from their ideological
rationalizations, and sketching the harms caused by colonialism.
The book concludes by considering when, or if, one can achieve a
genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses
by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such
as Joseph Conrad and Athol Fugard) and by non-Europeans (such as
Kamala Markandaya and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and
informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars
interested in colonialism and empire.
The only book to take a really broad look at literature and emotion
from a variety of perspectives including neuroscience Section on
theory introduces the more complex areas of affect theory and
cognitive science so people can understand throughout the book
Looks at a wide variety of literature but also features commonly
studied writers such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Austen and Woolf
In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become
increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the
social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has
addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated
national identity formation in influential works since the Civil
War. In this book, Hogan develops his earlier cognitive and
affective analyses of national identity, further exploring the ways
in which such identity is integrated with cross-culturally
recurring patterns in story structure. Hogan examines how authors
imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic
egalitarianism-in the face of the nation's clear and often brutal
inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality, exploring the complex and
often ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Djuna
Barnes, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood, N. Scott Momaday, Spike Lee,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Tony Kushner, and Heidi Schreck.
Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the
ways emotions are produced, experienced, and enacted in human
social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our
comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response
and ethical judgment. These are the central claims of Hogan's
study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary
works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological,
sociological, and other empirical research. In this work, he
explains the value of literary study for a cognitive science of
emotion and outlines the emotional organization of the human mind.
He explores the emotions of romantic love, grief, mirth, guilt,
shame, jealousy, attachment, compassion, and pity in each case
drawing on one work by Shakespeare and one or more works by writers
from different historical periods or different cultural
backgrounds, such as the eleventh-century Chinese poet Li
Ch'ing-Chao and the contemporary Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka.
Given Ulysses' perhaps unparalleled attention to the operations of
the human mind, it is unsurprising that critics have explored the
work's psychology. Nonetheless, there has been very little research
that draws on recent cognitive science to examine thought and
emotion in this novel. Hogan sets out to expand our understanding
of Ulysses, as well as our theoretical comprehension of
narrative-and even our views of human cognition. He revises the
main narratological accounts of the novel, clarifying the complex
nature of narration and style. He extends his cognitive study to
encompass the anti-colonial and gender concerns that are so
obviously important to Joyce's work. Finally, through a combination
of broad overviews and detailed textual analyses, Hogan seeks to
make this notoriously difficult book more accessible to
non-specialists.
American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial
issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in
influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses
techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the
complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity
in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs,
Douglass, Hawthorne, Poe, and Judith Sargeant Murray. Hogan focuses
on the issue of how authors imagined American
identity-specifically, as universal, democratic egalitarianism-in
the face of the nation's clear and often brutal inequalities of
race and sex. In the course of this study, Hogan advances our
understanding of nationalism in general, American identity in
particular, and the widely read literary works he examines.
American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial
issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in
influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses
techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the
complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity
in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs,
Douglass, Hawthorne, Poe, and Judith Sargeant Murray. Hogan focuses
on the issue of how authors imagined American
identity-specifically, as universal, democratic egalitarianism-in
the face of the nation's clear and often brutal inequalities of
race and sex. In the course of this study, Hogan advances our
understanding of nationalism in general, American identity in
particular, and the widely read literary works he examines.
Given Ulysses' perhaps unparalleled attention to the operations of
the human mind, it is unsurprising that critics have explored the
work's psychology. Nonetheless, there has been very little research
that draws on recent cognitive science to examine thought and
emotion in this novel. Hogan sets out to expand our understanding
of Ulysses, as well as our theoretical comprehension of
narrative-and even our views of human cognition. He revises the
main narratological accounts of the novel, clarifying the complex
nature of narration and style. He extends his cognitive study to
encompass the anti-colonial and gender concerns that are so
obviously important to Joyce's work. Finally, through a combination
of broad overviews and detailed textual analyses, Hogan seeks to
make this notoriously difficult book more accessible to
non-specialists.
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts is the first student-friendly introduction to the uses of cognitive science in the study of literature, written specifically for the non-scientist. Patrick Colm Hogan guides the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive science, focusing on those areas that are most important to fostering a new understanding of the production and reception of literature. This accessible volume provides a strong foundation of the basic principles of cognitive science, and allows us to begin to understand how the brain works and makes us feel as we read.
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and
related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates
this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to
propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and
sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as
beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to
examine the former in terms of information processing
(specifically, prototype approximation and non-habitual pattern
recognition) and emotional involvement (especially of the
endogenous reward and attachment systems). In the course of the
book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles of
aesthetic response may be reconciled with individual idiosyncrasy,
how it is possible to argue rationally over aesthetic response, and
what role personal beauty and sublimity might play in the
definition of art. To treat these issues, the book considers works
by Woolf, Wharton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse,
and Kiran Rao, among others.
Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the
ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social
life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our
comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response
and ethical judgment. These are the central claims of Hogan's
study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary
works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological,
sociological and other empirical research. In this work, he
explains the value of literary study for a cognitive science of
emotion and outlines the emotional organization of the human mind.
He explores the emotions of romantic love, grief, mirth, guilt,
shame, jealousy, attachment, compassion and pity - in each case
drawing on one work by Shakespeare and one or more works by writers
from different historical periods or different cultural
backgrounds, such as the eleventh-century Chinese poet Li
Ch'ing-Chao and the contemporary Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka.
This book explores how the creations of great authors result from
the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical
imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'.
Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in
neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a
rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes
beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions and
mechanisms of narrative imagination, with particular attention to
the role of theory of mind, and relates this analysis to narrative
universals. In the course of this theoretical discussion, Hogan
explores works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht,
Kafka and Calvino. He pays particular attention to the principles
and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, examining
the cognitive and emotional continuities that span an individual
author's body of work.
Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics,
finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of
Minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in
the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic
operation? Has your interest in narrative drawn you to question the
relation between stories and grammars? The Cambridge Encyclopedia
of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with
hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar
with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more
specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established
findings and cutting-edge research and classical approaches and new
theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an
interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more
about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects
that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at
the center of current research on the human mind and human society.
There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in
literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion. Hogan
maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are
misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear
directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience
emotion - literature. This is the first empirically and cognitively
based discussion of narrative universals. Professor Hogan argues
that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in
different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that
these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas
about emotion. In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws
on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research
treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological
principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of
science. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among
narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social
components of emotion.
Patrick Colm Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. Hogan draws on world literature; experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts; and methodological principles from contemporary linguistics and philosophy of science. He concludes with a discussion of the relationship between the narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.
In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an
individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and
affective science as well as literary works - from Walt Whitman and
Frederick Douglass to Dorothy Richardson, Alice Munro, and J. M.
Coetzee. His scholarly analyses are also intertwined with more
personal reflections, on for example his mother's memory loss. The
result is a work that examines a complex topic by drawing on a
unique range of resources, from empirical psychology and philosophy
to novels, films, and biographical experiences. The book provides a
clear, systematic account of personal identity that is
theoretically strong, but also unique and engaging.
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts is the first student-friendly introduction to the uses of cognitive science in the study of literature, written specifically for the non-scientist. Patrick Colm Hogan guides the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive science, focusing on those areas that are most important to fostering a new understanding of the production and reception of literature. This accessible volume provides a strong foundation of the basic principles of cognitive science, and allows us to begin to understand how the brain works and makes us feel as we read.
Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics,
finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of
minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in
the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic
operation? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes
basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more
specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It
incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge
research and classical approaches and new theoretical innovations.
The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect
of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of
ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this
rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current
research on the human mind and human society.
Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A.
arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he
is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a
linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the
benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But
what are these benefits? In his travels throughout the region, A.
finds only the physical and emotional scars of conquest, and of
routine colonial administration. Yet, even as the indigenous
culture is being reduced to mere fragments, he also learns of a
sublime literature responding to those historical traumas. One
storyteller in particular, Kehinta, begins to reveal to A. just how
much has been lost. A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the
horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of
story.
This book explores how the creations of great authors result from
the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical
imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'.
Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in
neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a
rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes
beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions and
mechanisms of narrative imagination, with particular attention to
the role of theory of mind, and relates this analysis to narrative
universals. In the course of this theoretical discussion, Hogan
explores works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht,
Kafka and Calvino. He pays particular attention to the principles
and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, examining
the cognitive and emotional continuities that span an individual
author's body of work.
During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir-a
Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja-became a hotly
disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region
has been the focus of international wars and the theater of
political and military struggles for self-determination. The result
has been great human suffering within the state, with political
implications extending globally. Imagining Kashmir examines
cinematic and literary imaginings of the Kashmir region's conflicts
and diverse citizenship, analyzing a wide range of narratives from
writers and directors such as Salman Rushdie, Bharat Wakhlu, Mani
Ratnam, and Mirza Waheed in conjunction with research in
psychology, cognitive science, and social neuroscience. In this
innovative study, Patrick Colm Hogan's historical and cultural
analysis of Kashmir advances theories of narrative, colonialism,
and their corresponding ideologies in relation to the cognitive and
affective operations of identity. Hogan considers how narrative
organizes people's understanding of, and emotions about, real
political situations and the ways in which such situations in turn
influence cultural narratives, not only in Kashmir but around the
world.
Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the
days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand
now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient
stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in
different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the
structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion
systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes,
plots, and genres are a function of emotional processes, he
demonstrates that emotion systems are absolutely crucial for
understanding stories.
Hogan also makes a case for the potentially integral role that
stories play in the development of our emotional lives. He provides
an in-depth account of the function of emotion within story--in
widespread genres with romantic, heroic, and sacrificial
structures, and more limited genres treating parent/child
separation, sexual pursuit, criminality, and revenge--as these
appear in a variety of cross-cultural traditions. In the course of
the book Hogan develops interpretations of works ranging from
Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" to African oral epics, from Sanskrit
comedy to Shakespearean tragedy.
Integrating the latest research in affective science with
narratology, this book provides a powerful explanatory account of
narrative organization.
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