...Eyal Segal Carroll Joseph , Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice . New York : State University of New York Press , 2011 . xvi + 352 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina Grishakova and Marie...

...Margaret H. Freeman This paper argues that the cognitive sciences need to incorporate aesthetic study of the arts into their methodologies to fully understand the nature of human cognitive processes, because the arts reflect insights into human experience that are unobtainable by the methodologies...

... “narrativist turn.” It attempts to present a genealogy of the different ways in which disciplines in the human sciences have formulated and employed narrative and narrative theory,particularly in those fields that make truth claims: history or political science, for example. Why have political scientists now...

...Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen Abstract The humanities are centrally concerned with such human subjectivity—such thinking, feeling, and wondering—as goes into the appreciation of a painting or the absorbed and responsive reading of a novel. It is often argued that the intrinsic subjectivity...

... and Their Culture (London: Filmscan/Lingual House). Rosch, Eleanor 1977 “Human Categorization,” in Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology , vol. 1 , edited by Neil Warren, 1 -49 (London: Academic). Rumelhart, D. E. 1981 “Schemata: The Building Blocks of Cognition,” in Comprehension and Teaching: Research...

... or assumed by dominant hermeneutic and poetic theories since late antiquity. Shakespeare’s final romances move toward making an ethical sense—one rooted in human constants of embodied responsiveness to others—the source and ultimate judge of literary significance or poetic truth. By making the ethical rather...

... politics; the latter is the subjective, highly malleable time of human experience. But there is another time, also active in Woolf's novel and in her oeuvre more generally, that Ricoeur seems to overlook. It is the “deep history” (Shryock and Smail 2011) of geological and planetary phenomena that vastly...

...Geoffrey Hartman Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 The Humanities of Testimony: An Introduction Geoffrey Hartman English and Comparative Literature, Yale In the year 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and other death, slave-labor...

...Oleg Sobchuk Grishakova Marina and Salupere Silvi , eds., Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy . New York and London : Routledge , 2015 . xii + 287 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

...Figure 1 A schematic model of the ecosemiotic dynamic in the habitat system, highlighting the role of poiesis in semiotic alignment (structural coupling) of human and nonhuman own-worlds (circles), notably through the mechanisms of identification and symbolization. ...

...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...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Drawing on cognitive science, literary critics such as Mark Turner have affirmed that for human beings thinking is crucially bound up with narrative. This essay examines how Ian McEwan in his novel Saturday (2005) adds a specifically affective element to the human engagement...

...Hilary Duffield Abstract The article analyses science fiction texts featuring time loops from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Within its historical-environmental framework it proposes the term Anthropocene consciousness to refer to the historical process of accumulating knowledge, in both human...

...Matthew Wickman Postsecular thought and criticism involves heightened attention to religious feeling as well as to religious practices. Such feeling, often described as spirituality, enjoys broad cultural currency, though it is far less frequently an object of scholarly attention in the humanities...

...Paul Hernadi Since prehistoric times literature has been serving two complementary functions: to expand the cognitive, emotive, and volitional horizons of human awareness and to integrate our beliefs, feelings, and desires within the fluid mentality required for survival in the complex social...

...Petra Aczél Abstract Rhetoric is broadly referred to as the theory and practice of suasory communication enabling humans to participate actively in public. Although traditionally viewed as strongly tied with exclusively verbal persuasion, rhetoric has always extended beyond this limitation...

... order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, routines versus animals, in the context of circus traveling(fieldwork carried out in 1975-79).The circus display of both animals and humans...

... the grasp of time. However, this aesthetics is shown to be illusory and self-deceptive: the very opposition between humanity and nature stems from the human desire to comprehend and thus reduce to reason (and language) what the text constructs as irreducible. Mrs. Ramsay's aesthetics gives way...

... to literature, this commentary addresses a number of issues related to, but also exceeding, the field of cognitive literary studies. These issues include the interrelation of the terms cognitive and literary and of human history versus evolution; the rhetoric and dynamics of paradigm change; the history...