...Haiyan Lee This article seeks to historicize the affinity between narrative fiction and the cognitive function known as theory of mind. The author believes this affinity holds true mostly in modern commercial societies structured by stranger sociality, cosmopolitanism, and social mobility...

...Eyal Segal Herman David , Storytelling and the Sciences of the Mind . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2013 . xiv + 428 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, eds., A Cambridge Companion to Textual...

... of such storytelling, “mind-tricking narratives.” These employ narrative techniques — to be more precise, focused and temporary surprise gaps — that deliberately deceive the audience. They play with the viewers’ experiences, expectations, and responses during the viewing of a film and spring an utterly surprising...

...Maria Mäkelä The article challenges both cognitive-universalist and unnatural-exceptionalist approaches to fictional minds by analyzing how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novel merges the premodern poetics of exemplarity with emergent modern techniques of representing consciousness...

...Eyal Segal Herman David , ed., The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . viii + 315 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...

... communication milieu. The reception of the poetry by the specific listening audience is considered, with special attention given to the functioning of metaphor in relation to states of mind brought about by the use of psychedelics, such as LSD. The poetry itself is situated as both contribution...

...’’ affects. A compound affect incorporates intellectual and imaginative elements, and his use of the term ‘‘compound’’ calls to mind other recent attempts to model the intellectual component of emotion, such as Martha Nussbaum’s (2001) use of ‘‘arche- ology’’ to indicate the layers of past experience...

... these possibilities within its own potential, absolutely no need for a partitioned, self-contained practice of criticism or critical theory’’ Brian McHale, West Virginia University Vladimir Tumanov, Mind Reading: Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction. Amsterdam...

...Mark J. Bruhn This essay reconstructs Percy Shelley's theory of mind from his letters and many unfinished essays as well as his Defence of Poetry (1821), emphasizing his radical insistence on the formal and teleological roles of analogy in human cognition, communication, and culture. Adopting...

... University DOI 10.1215/03335372-7739183 Beth Lau, ed., Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind. London: Routledge, 2018. viii1 237 pp. Jane Austen is a writer favored by cognitive literary scholars for her fine- grained observation and nuanced representation of the emotional and cog- nitive workings...

...Monika Fludernik Taking its inspiration from cognitive narratology and particularly the work of Alan Palmer on the Victorian novel, this essay examines to what extent collective minds can be traced in early modern narratives. One of the typical sites of intermental thought is the representation...

...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Bernaerts Lars , de Geest Dirk , Herman Luc , and Vervaeck Bart , eds., Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2013 . 223 pp. New...

... presuppositions that still inform much of cognitive science, such as the relation of language to our experience of the natural world, the nature of subjective and objective representations, and the role of the arts in the evolutionary development of the human mind. In basing my approach to literature on Vico’s...

... lead to a fundamentally new reading of Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion (1818). Austen's was a period when a dominant constructionist psychology—associationism—vied with emergent brain-based,organicist, and nativist theories of mind. Austen pointedly contrasts a heroine seemingly formed...

...-Albrecht Gollub, 238 -44 (New York: Continuum). 1997 Sämtliche Werke und Briefe , vol. 4 , edited by Klaus Müller-Salget and Stefan Ormanns (Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag). © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Minding the Gap: Toward a Historical...

...: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry , by Wimsatt William K. , 21 – 39 ( Lexington : University Press of Kentucky ). Suspicious Minds Rita Felski University of Virginia, Eng­lish Abstract The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur to describe the practice of reading...

...Lars Bernaerts; Brian Richardson In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem mutually exclusive. They each highlight different aspects of what narrators and characters think and feel, and their explanatory grounds differ. An unnatural reading...

... of feminine power. This essay asks what Austen’s portrayal of minds attempting to read others tells us about her narrator’s entry into her characters’ minds, and it finds answers to this question in the novel’s word games. In their presentation, solutions, and responses, riddles reveal Austen’s foundation...

...Thomas Scholz Hatavara Mari Hyvärinen Matti Mäkelä Maria Mäyrä Frans , eds. Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds . New York : Routledge , 2016 . xii + 314 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

...Alan Palmer; Adam Stier An internalist perspective on the mind stresses those aspects that are inner, introspective, private, solitary, individual, psychological, mysterious, and detached. An externalist perspective stresses those aspects that are outer, active, public, social, behavioral, evident...