Karin Kukkonen

Probability Designs

Literature and Predictive Processing

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Produktbeschreibung

In Probability Designs, Karin Kukkonen presents the predictive processing model of cognition as a means of exploring narrative structure and reader experience. Utilizing the literary canon of various cultures, Kukkonen combines theory and cognitive science to analyze how reader expectation and prediction shape literature, and how literature accomplishes cognitive feats that determine the human capacity for free, exploratory thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780190050955
• ISBN-10: 0190050950
• Artikelnr.: 58342187

Autorenporträt

Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Her work investigates how the novel emerged as a genre designed for particular cognitive and emotional engagements and how the poetics of earlier periods and cognitive poetics today can speak to each other. At the University of Oslo, Kukkonen heads the interdisciplinary research and teaching initiative "Literature, Cognition and Emotions" (2019-2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literature and Predictive Processing
I: Narrative Design
1. Plots and Probability Transformations
2. Probability Designs
3. The Height of Drop
II: The Embodied Reader
III. Into the Mental Library
1. Intertextual Precision Expectations
2. Things That Did Not Happen
3. Reading by Proxy
4. Artificial, In the Best Sense of the Word
IV: An Argument From Design
1.Otto's Novel
2. Literature as a Designer Environment
3. The Cognitive Work of Form
Endnotes
Bibliography