... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... ). Rantanen Tytti . 2015 “ Defending the Private and the Unnarratable: Doomed Attempts to Read and Write Literary and Cinematic Minds in Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle .” In Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds , edited by Hatavara Maria Hyvärinen Matti...

...Brian McGrath In the Death Penalty seminar, Derrida is on the side of abolition. The seminar has in mind an end: the end of the death penalty. But this end is not simple or straightforward, for as Derrida explores, the death penalty is nothing other than an attempt to control the end by making...

... 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...

...Peter Cosgrove This article analyzes some of the problematics of allegorical reading and suggests a method of reading poetry by paying attention to the impenetrable“thingness” of tropes and figures, using as an example a poem notorious for the prevalence of allegory in the history of its...

... sector of his masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations, we see a modernized version of such self-interrogation in action. In his remarks on the experience of reading—a familiar experience that we all too easily take to conform to a Cartesian model—we witness a mind confronting its own...

... in an estranging reading of the enactive immersion in The Inheritors . Here the extraordinary embodiedness of the Neanderthal focalization is a key to a literaryallegorical reading of the Neanderthal mind as imagined by Golding. This reading, accomplished through a constructed debate between two paradigms...

... that the interaction and oscillation between the page or the screen (the receiving device) on which the ekphrasis appears and our mind’s eye generates a blend that I call the “pictorial third” as a means of accounting for the reading/visualizing experience. Copyright © 2018 by Porter Institute for Poetics...

...Elizabeth Bradburn Is reading poetry good for you? Drawing on evidence that reading poetry involves some of the same brain structures as those upon which human psychological well-being depends, this essay argues that George Herbert’s devotional lyrics, long understood as Christian meditations...

... of Abnormal and Social Psychology 63 , no. 3 Knowledge, Understanding, Well-Being: Cognitive Literary Studies : 575 – 82 . Baron-Cohen Simon Wheelwright Sally Hill Jacqueline Raste Yogini Plumb Ian 2001 . “ The ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test Revised Version: A Study...

... of the book's length for a general discussion of aging, poetry and temporality. One should bear in mind that Universe is not a retrospective work of synthesis but rather a present and future-oriented project. The point of departure for the article's analysis will be the following passage from Northern Soul...

... that this model has receivedmuch attention is that it complicates our understanding of theory of mind, aka mind reading, which are metaphorical terms used by cognitive scientists to describe our evolved cognitive capacity for understanding people in terms of their mental states. (For a brief illustration of how...

... big enough to punt a boat in (Zaixiang duli neng chengchuan The titular saying registers the moral opprobrium attached to a kind of mind reading driven by the presumption of ulterior motives. The lesser man (xiaoren or knave or pipsqueak, is by nature suspicious, paranoid, manipulative...

... important mental capacities involved, which Vermeule goes on to discuss, is “mind reading”—how we represent to ourselves the mental states of other people, so that we would be able to understand their behavior and predict what they are going to do. Accordingly, literary works often...

... interaction and attain social success by outwitting and seeing further than other people. As a result, this Machiavellian impulse also becomes a very powerful source of human—and literary—interest. Among the most important mental capacities involved, which Vermeule goes on to discuss, is “mind reading...

... interaction and attain social success by outwitting and seeing further than other people. As a result, this Machiavellian impulse also becomes a very powerful source of human—and literary—interest. Among the most important mental capacities involved, which Vermeule goes on to discuss, is “mind reading...

... or insincerity and commits errors of meta- representation, Lau argues that her mind-reading skills improve over the course of the story, in addition to her showing signs, right from the beginning, of correctly inferring the mental states of other people, thus challenging the view that Catherine suffers from...

...-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Zunshine Lisa 2006 Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). 2008 Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins...