... of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (II),” Poetics Today 24 : 517 -638. Turner, Mark 1991 Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press). Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: The Progress of Cognitive Poetics...

...David Herman Description, narrative , and explanation can be viewed both as cognitive activities and as forms of communication, that is, text types embedded within sociocultural, institutional, and discipline-specific histories of practice. I relate these three text-type categories to research...

...Tony E. Jackson Ciccoricco David , Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . x + 317 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Stories, New Explanations: Cognitive Literary Studies at Work Tony E. Jackson...

.... An analysis of this narrative core of the coincidence plot centers on the depiction of the characters' cognitive processes and the suspense generated by the reader's anticipation of a recognition scene. Beyond this, the narrative explanation of coincidence is a key feature: a variety of explanatory patterns...

... precisely around 1630, and mainly in Italy. The most likely explanation is twofold. First, the interpretation of catastrophes no longer relies solely on religious explanations, but political and polemical ones are also starting to be considered. Second, the expression of a point of view contributes...

... sense, then what kinds of claims will they need to make?Most important, how will the problematic but unavoidable distinction between nature and nurture be dealt with? Though the kinds of explanations offered in both fields can obviously enough be relevant to defining what literature is in relation...

... in apparent complicity with prescribed forms of Western civility. The essay argues that conventional notions of postcolonial resistance are unable to provide an adequate explanation for identity politics which are based on the desire for Western acculturation instead of resistance to it. By recourse...

...Leona Toker The article offers an explanation of Varlam Shalamov's negative attitude to the samizdat in the 1970s, particularly puzzling in view of the samizdat's role in making him unofficially famous in the 1960s. It explains the change in Shalamov's views by his struggle for authorial control...

...Margrethe Bruun Vaage The article proposes an explanation for why spectators may enjoy excessive punishment when watching fiction, even in Scandinavia where harsh punishment is roundly condemned. Excessive punishment is typically carried out by a vigilante avenger, and in fiction this character...

...- ence between the explanation and that which gets explained. We have an object of study known as literature, and we have a more or less systematic approach to explaining the object that is distinctly different in discursive...

... , 4th ed. ( Paris : Nathan ). Adams Jon-K 1996 Narrative Explanation: A Pragmatic Theory of Discourse ( Frankfurt : Peter Lang ). Anscombe G. E. M. 1957 Intention ( Oxford : Blackwell ). Aristotle 1997 [1895] Poetics , translated by Butcher S. H...

...-critical explanation. Drawing on Hempel s work on expla- nation, they ask, What does form explain? (650). But, as Levinson (2017: 151) correctly notes in her response, they don t seem to understand the whole conversation about philosophical explanation. Kramnick and Nersessian get Hempel backward: Hempel...

... and physics. In making this assumption, I am not privileging one discipline over another. I am just saying that a lower level of explanation must be assumed by each higher-level discipline. For example, to explain the structure and function...

... of change I think, because’’ and ‘‘These books were a kind of revelation touches on the second aspect. People are inclined to give explanations or interpreta- tions of their memories. Occasionally, the interpretations may change over time in order to make them coherent with later reconstructions...

... and evolutionary psychology. Then we discuss two recurring issues in evolutionary psychological explanations of culture: the specter of social Darwinism and the speculativeness of claims. In the fifth section we inves- tigate how arguments based on empirical science of whatever kind can be expected to hold...

... the present tense through- out, such as Coetzee’s novel? If one wishes to make the novel conform to common sense, Cohn (ibid.: 15–18) holds, one either has to regard the text as nonnarrative or assume that the present tense refers to the past. The first explanation suggests itself in that the quoted...

... this attention. Part 3, “Evolution and Fiction,” focuses on an evolutionary explanation of fiction as a special art form, which moves radically beyond what other animals can do. Aside from the narrative aspect, Boyd posits fictionality as a crucial characteristic: the “pseudo-information”­ it provides...

..., “Evolution and Fiction,” focuses on an evolutionary explanation of fiction as a special art form, which moves radically beyond what other animals can do. Aside from the narrative aspect, Boyd posits fictionality as a crucial characteristic: the “pseudo-information”­ it provides poses a puzzle...

... explanations for its resurrections. Canceled after two seasons, the show s story remains incomplete, however. 396 Poetics Today 41:3 tom of their inner lives, either of Ade`le s ongoing trauma at bereavement or of his own paranoia about her potential obsession with her former partner, or aman truly back from...

... Explanation ,'' Philosophical Review 112 : 1 – 25 . Wilson Timothy D. 2002 Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious ( Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ). © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 A Comeuppance Theory...