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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reaching well beyond recent continental theorists, Hogan provides a
lucid overview that carefully explicates and applies theories from
Aristotle to Derrida and beyond while radically revising and
extending the theory canon as well. Contemporary literary study
constantly invokes philosophical concepts and presupposes
familiarity with key thinkers. At the same time it often betrays a
limited understanding of the concepts and thinkers from which it
claims authority. Surveying 2,500 years of philosophically oriented
literary theory, Patrick Hogan provides students and teachers of
literature with both explication and application of the
philosophical underpinnings of literary study.
Beginning with Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit classics, Hogan
explains the philosophical work that has been crucial to literary
theory, moving through Kant and the German Idealists (Fichte,
Schelling, Hegel) and post-Idealists (Nietzsche, Marx), to
phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the recent European schools
(Foucaultian historicism, structuralism, deconstruction, and so
on). He also presents the Anglo-American tradition, from logical
positivism to Wittgenstein and the Ordinary Language theorists,
from Chomsky an linguistics to cognitive science and philosophy of
science.
Beyond the founding principles and general structure of these
theories, Hogan illustrates their practical application and value
with interpretive discussions of Othello and Agha Shahid Ali's "I
Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi." His straightforward,
energetic style brings complex philosophical issues to bear on
literary interpretation in readily accessible language.
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.
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.
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.
On Interpretation challenges a number of entrenched assumptions
about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at
cross purposes. Patrick Colm Hogan first sets forth a theory of
meaning and interpretation and then develops it in the context of
the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary
criticism. In his preface, Hogan discusses developments in
semantics and related fields that have occurred over the decade
since the book first appeared. Now with a new preface
" Hogan's] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of
understanding that will be of practical value to those who struggle
for justice and freedom. Drawing from an impressive array of
sources, his valuable study advances both ends considerably, no
mean accomplishment."--Noam Chomsky
In this wide-ranging and informative work, Patrick Colm Hogan
draws on cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and social psychology
to explore the cultural and psychological components of social
consent. Focusing in particular on Americans' acquiescence to a
system that underpays and underrepresents the vast majority of the
population, Hogan moves beyond typical studies of this phenomenon
by stressing more than its political and economic dimensions.
With new insights into particularly insideous forms of consent
such as those manifest in racism, sexism, and homophobia, "The
Culture of Conformism" considers the role of emotion as it works in
conjunction with belief and with the formation of group identity.
Arguing that coercion is far more pervasive in democratic societies
than is commonly recognized, Hogan discusses the subtle ways in
which economic and social pressures operate to complement the more
obviously violent forces of the police and military. Addressing
issues of narcissism, self-esteem, and empathy, he also explains
the concept of "rational" conformity--that is, the degree to which
our social consent is based on self-interest--and explores the
cognitive factors that produce and sustain social ideology.
Social activists, economic theorists, social psychologists, and
political scientists will be intrigued and informed by this
book.
An influential body of recent work on moral psychology has stressed
the interconnections among ethics, narrative, and empathy. Yet as
Patrick Colm Hogan argues, this work is so vague in its use of the
term 'narrative' as to be almost substanceless, and this vagueness
is in large part due to the neglect of literary study. Extending
his previous work on universal story structures, Hogan argues that
we can transform ill-defined intuitions about narrative and ethics
into explicit and systematic accounts of the deep connections
between moral attitudes and narratives. These connections are, in
turn, inseparable from empathy, a concept that Hogan proceeds to
clarify and defend against a number of widely read critiques. In
the course of the book, Hogan develops and illustrates his
arguments through analyses of global narratives, constructing
illuminating ethical interpretations of literary works ranging from
Shakespeare to Chinese drama and the Bhagavad Gita.
Cognitive cultural theorists have rarely taken up sex, sexuality,
or gender identity. When they have done so, they have often
stressed the evolutionary sources of gender differences. In Sexual
Identities, Patrick Colm Hogan extends his pioneering work on
identity to examine the complexities of sex, the diversity of
sexuality, and the limited scope of gender. Drawing from a diverse
body of literary works, Hogan illustrates a rarely drawn
distinction between practical identity (the patterns in what one
does, thinks, and feels) and categorical identity (how one labels
oneself or is categorized by society). Building on this
distinction, he offers a nuanced reformulation of the idea of
social construction, distinguishing ideology, situational
determination, shallow socialization, and deep socialization. He
argues for a meticulous skepticism about gender differences and a
view of sexuality as evolved but also contingent and highly
variable. The variability of sexuality and the near absence of
gender fixity-and the imperfect alignment of practical and
categorical identities in both cases-give rise to the social
practices that Judith Butler refers to as "regulatory regimes."
Hogan goes on to explore the cognitive and affective operation of
such regimes. Ultimately, Sexual Identities turns to sex and the
question of how to understand transgendering in a way that respects
the dignity of transgender people, without reverting to gender
essentialism.
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