Patrick Colm Hogan

Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for Humanists

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film studies. This is an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature. Hogan suggests how the human brain works and makes us feel in response to literature. He walks the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive science that are important for the humanities in order to understand the production and reception of literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136069789
• Artikelnr.: 38249972

Autorenporträt

Patrick Colm Hogan is Professor of English and Comparative literature at the University of Connecticut.His many books include The Culture of Conformism, PhilosophicalApproaches to the Study of Literature, Colonialism andCultural Identity, and The Politics of Interpretation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Dustheap of History: Why Cognitive Science Now? Chapter
1. My Favorite Things: Thinking Jazz Chapter 2. Is It Cognitive Science
Yet? (Some Basic Principles) Chapter 3. The Author: Maestros and Geniuses
Chapter 4. The Text (I): Where the Metaphors Are Chapter 5. The Text (II):
Narrative, or Getting the Story Straight Chapter 6. The Reader: How
Literature Makes Us Feel Chapter 7. From Mind to Matter: Art, Empathy, and
the Brain Chapter 8. The Evolutionary Turn: Blindness and Insight in the
Explanation of Art and Mind Works Cited