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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Andrew Gaedtke Recent developments in cognitive science have overturned the restrictions of behaviorism and have once again made consciousness a legitimate object of scientific investigation. New brain scanning technologies have introduced the possibility of mapping the neural correlates...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
...David A. P. Womble Abstract This essay argues that the Victorian novel recast the cognitive deficiencies associated with the mass as necessary traits for inhabiting a statistically rendered public sphere. In order to attribute personhood to an influx of potentially asocial bodies that fell short...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Lisa Zunshine My essay emphasizes the social aspect of our engagement with fictional narratives by drawing on cognitive scientists' research into “theory of mind,” also known as “mind reading”: our evolved adaptation for explaining people's behavior in terms of their mental states, such as thoughts...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 November 2014
... novelists employ the conventions in characters who understand the world as a simple, single totality. For both writers, the cult serves to draw a contrast with the novels' own self-consciously complex cognitive maps of the contemporary world system. Works Cited American Psychiatric Association...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., by proximate cause, to render him, in retrospect, the indirect victim (spoiler alert) of electronic sophistication in American's “wired wars.” Until then, reading swerves between alternate and seemingly unrelated spaces of cyber‐optic volatility and cognitive evacuation, virtual over against vitiated...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
... considerable popular acclaim, critics have yet to interrogate the troubling political vision they develop. The pivotal novum in the series—the new concept or creation, which Darko Suvin influentially identified as SF's chief mechanism for triggering “cognitive estrangement” in readers—is its “dark forest...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the rational mind. These texts are representative of an epistemic shift from reason to affect that is paralleled by a shift from word to image—understanding visuality as the dominant metonym of sensorial representation and cognition. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Damasio , Antonio...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Caroline Levine This essay asks what the form of the long Victorian novel is peculiarly capable of accomplishing. It introduces the term affordance , from cognitive psychology and design, which refers to the range of potential actions and uses latent in objects and materials. What potentialities...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 476–480.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Hannah Walser Tobin groups the cognitive phenomena that interest her most under the rubric “mental contamination effects.” (“Contamination,” to me, sounds not much nicer than “sin” or “bias,” but it is Tobin's preferred term.) Mental contamination occurs when “information we encounter in one...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 313–317.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and cognitive or neurological sciences to get too cozy. In recent cognitive approaches to literature (CAL) and the work of so-called literary Darwinism, he finds literary scholars embracing theories of mind that shortchange the complex phenomenon that is human emotion. Consilience , as promoted by A. O. Wilson...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 474–477.
Published: 01 November 2013
... without Thinking in the Victorian Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012), pp. 243, cloth, $55.00. Restoration of a productive exchange between science and literature and demonstration of the Victorian novel’s complex engagement with cognition and insight are the dual aims of Vanessa L. Ryan’s...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 502–505.
Published: 01 November 2012
... turns to the ques- tion of how, the answer to which she finds in cognitive theories of mind. We are driven to understand other people by what she calls a “Machiavellian intelligence,” and “mind read- ing is the tool we use to put those abilities into play” (35). Vermeule really hits her stride...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 May 2004
... cognition and then to the specific case of literature. Before Carroll can elaborate this argument, however, he needs to clear critical space by discrediting rival theoretical paradigms. Foremost among these are the schools that he sees dominating the humanities: deconstruction, new historicism...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 343–357.
Published: 01 August 2016
... empires in crisis ( Jameson, “Cognitive” ; “Modernism”). With the help of Giovanni Arrighi, Esty elevates Jameson's means of contextualizing early twentieth-century literature to a model that extends across the whole time frame of Arrighi's “long twentieth century,” which stretches from the Genoese...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 491–495.
Published: 01 November 2013
... fiction across multiple axes while also representing an impressive diversity of methodological impulses and agendas: new formalisms, regionalisms, cognitive narratology, ethical criticism, transnationalism, trauma studies, translation theory, and sociology of literature are collected under...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 May 2011
... . “The Contemporary Novel.” “Futures of the Novel” Forum . Duke University , Durham, NC . 29 Apr. 2010 . Galison Peter . “Specific Theory.” Critical Inquiry 30 ( 2004 ): 379 – 83 . Hayles N. Katherine . “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
... to survey the bodies of the urban lumpenproletariat often result in various forms of cognitive dissonance that undermine realism's will-to-legibility. In contrast to Howard's claims, these writings-especially those by Wyckoff and Crane-suggest that the dichotomy between omniscient narrators...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 November 2013
... surrounding external detail (in delineating physical character, for example) played a role in the construction of subjectivity in the writing of the eighteenth century (see Lynch). Jonathan Kramnick takes this rich mine of criticism into a significant new vein as he explores the ways in which cognition...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 402–420.
Published: 01 November 2006
... –205. Keymer , Thomas . Sterne, the Moderns and the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002 . Küchler , Susanne . “Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things.” Miller 206 –30. Lamb , Jonathan . “Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales.” Things . Ed. Brown, Bill...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... poems reformulated as the workers' poetry at South African trade union rallies. Each case amalgamates the oral and the written, the performative and the cognitive, the local and the universal. And such amalgamations, claims Mangharam, trigger reciprocal gestures in readers and audiences that allow them...