...Lisa Zunshine In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a “cognitive” reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 1781 book Hymns in Prose for Children . Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode...

...Eyal Segal Boyd Brian , On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 . xiii + 540 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories...

... by recent developments in the study of embodied cognition, now taken as shaped by feelings and by our different senses, including kinesthetic and other bodily processes. Cognition extends to the environment around us in terms of affordances—ways we interact immediately with objects in the environment...

...Peter Stockwell Overall, The Poem as Icon distills many ideas in cognitive poetics and in Freeman's developing thought that have been drawing together for many years. The book ends not only optimistically and expansively but also on a philosophical note that is almost transcendental. Bringing...

...H. Porter Abbott Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity . Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. Abbott, H. Porter 2001 “Scientists, Humanists, and the Cultural...

...Eyal Segal Trites Roberta Seelinger , Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature . Amsterdam : Benjamins , 2014 . viii + 164 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart...

... argues is “a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images.” Through both a cognitive-literary and an empirical study of the metaphors in Donne's poems “The Bait” and “The Flea,” the authors discuss the grotesque nature of his poetic imagery as constituting “a clash of incompatibles...

...Ellen Spolsky Bruhn Mark J. and Wehrs Donald R. , eds., Cognition, Literature, and History . New York : Routledge , 2014 . xii + 271 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs, eds., Cognition...

...Ben Morgan The article surveys three major positions in early debates about situated cognition in the 1990s as they are represented, in particular, in the work of Edwin Hutchins, Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, Tim van Gelder, Andy Clark, Jerome S. Bruner, and John Haugeland. Rather than arbitrate among...

...Terence Cave Literary utterances reflect the situatedness of cognition itself both through their historico-cultural specificity and through their deployment of highly particularized language. It follows that the literary archive (in the broadest sense, all forms of storytelling, fiction, poetry...

... and opportunities that an insight into the embodied nature of larger historical processes presents. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 embodied cognition bildungsroman George Eliot Johann Wolfgang von Goethe paradox of fiction References Anderson Amanda 1997...

...Karin Kukkonen; Henrik Skov Nielsen Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their similarities, unnatural approaches...

...Marshall Alcorn; Michael O’Neill The concept of adaptive affective cognition is developed to explain the affective impact of Richard Wright’s novel Native Son on the judicial reasoning of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954. Although research in neuroscience clearly argues...

...Lisa Zunshine There is a growing sense among scholars working in cognitive literary studies that their assumptions and methodologies increasingly align them with another paradigmatically interdisciplinary field: comparative literature. This introduction to the special issue on cognitive approaches...

...Karin Kukkonen Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts...

... “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism,” Poetics Today 21 : 319 -47. Sartre, Jean-Paul 1965 [1947] What Is Literature? translated by Bernard Frechtman (New York: Harper& Row). Sontag, Susan 1966 Against Interpretation,and Other...

... , translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press). Brooks, Cleanth 1975 The Well Wrought Urn:Studies in the Structure of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Crane, Mary Thomas 2001 Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Princeton, NJ...

...: W. Canning). Crane, Mary Thomas 2001 Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Crane, Mary Thomas, and Alan Richardson 1999 “Literary Studies and Cognitive Science: Toward a New Interdisciplinarity,” Mosaic 32 (2): 123 -40...

...Mark Turner The cognitive turn in the humanities is an aspect of a more general cognitive turn taking place in the contemporary study of human beings. Because it interacts with cognitive neuroscience, it can seem unfamiliar to students of the humanities, but in fact it draws much of its content...

...Ellen Spolsky Rather than denying the insights of post-structuralist theory, literary interpretation and theory with an evolutionary cognitive perspective actually nestles nicely within a central niche of deconstructionist thinking, that is,the critique of representation. What we learn from recent...