...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...

... and presuppositions underlying the ascription to literature of an ethically exemplary role. Accepting the methodological and conceptual challenges presented by some of the major philosophical and theoretical positions informing literature's perception as ethically exemplary (from Aristotle to Jakobson and Derrida...

... for neuroimaging methodology, and the goal of establishing the neurobiological foundations of mind and behavior. A neural turn has also been taken in some quarters within the literary field. The neurosciences have provided writers of literature with resources for depicting characters and psychological processes...

...Omri Herzog; Tamar Hager Complex changes have buffeted the discipline of literature during the past decades, calling on us to rethink its academic and cultural definitions, boundaries, and territories. Texts which until recently have not been examined within literary studies (such as films, online...

...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...

... that this is not the case, and that logic can and has been set in a productive dialogue with both literature and literary criticism. Indeed, during the nineteenth century itself, disciplinary and methodological distinctions, although under construction, had not yet calcified, and so prompted self-conscious explorations...

... James 1961 “ Of Fission and Fish .” Saturday Review of Literature , April 29 , 14 , 16 . literary field nonliterary fictions literature as methodology literary interpretation knowledge building Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 ...

... states that it is intended to pay the debt he owes Czech literature and the Czech literary theoretical environment. Indeed, Heterocosmica II represents the first systematic mono- graph devoted to the postmodern Czech literary production, combining a methodologically unified perspective of fictional...

... but with what came before.” To assert that this “amalgamation” led to the “death” of literary theory is per- haps to overstate, ever so slightly, the argument of my article on the birth and 3. Iakovlev’s text was first presented as a paper at a meeting of the Group on the Methodology of Literature...

... with Gestalt psychology. (9) Let us continue this lively interchange, delineating two major issues: that of theoretical orientation and that of experimental methodology. We agree with West that Richards was trained as a psychologist and applied the tools of his training to the study of literature. We...

... by the achievement of shared meaning among participants, when hearers or readers correctly interpret the commu- nicative intention of speakers or writers. As a result, various critical theories and methodologies dealing with authorial presence in literature have tended to rely on close adherence either...

... he makes, his methodology has to be related to the semantics of the tool. McKeon’s history rests on two pillars, a socioethical one and an epistemological one: he studies the socioethical and epistemological changes the period undergoes and shows how they express themselves in literature. In each...

... ( Literature and Art Criticism ) 6 : 36 – 39 . Liu Mingjin . 1999 . Methodology (Traditional Chinese Literary Theory). Shanghai : Fudan University Press . Liu Xiangyu . 2006 . “ The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Canon ” (in Chinese pinyin). Zhongguo bijiao wenxue...

... interrelation” (21). Beginning with a study of the “book talk” (of readers’ posts in Amazon.co.uk and Libarything.org ) about E. I. James's Fifty Shades of Grey and the Twilight novel series by Stephanie Meyer, she fleshes out a methodology for analyzing intertextual connections within texts (James's...

... additional and better methodologies for fostering literary reading engagement, as existing results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have demonstrated the importance of reading engagement for both academic achievement and social mobility...

... twelve years is bringing the field into view as a global, transhistorical, and anti-disciplinary practice, spanning many centuries and continents, and encompassing a wealth of methodological tools and approaches. These new developments promise to revitalize a field that currently finds itself...

... of rethinking the history of literature and culture from a cognitive standpoint. Their approach aims more to supplement than to supplant the current approaches and methodologies relied upon in historicist and other Richardson and Steen • Literature and the Cognitive Revolution: An Introduction 3...

... in the present. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 Historical Poetics Marxist literary theory persistence of forms References Ahmad Aijaz 2008 [1986] “Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the ‘National Allegory.’” In In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures...

... of a profound methodological schism. Reviewing the status of interpretation in cognitive and unnatural approaches to narrative, we contend that scholars in the cognitive camp have tended to treat interpretation as an object of study (i.e., investigating the interpretive process), while those in the unnatural...

... of the methodological implications of his definition of narrative, in particular by analyzing the example of character narration. The author also presents a revised rhetorical approach, understanding narrative as a term used to denote communicative actions within a variety of contexts. The motivation behind...