Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts

Published by University of Texas Press 2010

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts

Edited by: Frederick Luis Aldama

In the series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/721579

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About this book

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general reader as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman, Lalita Pandit Hogan, Klarina Priborkin, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ellen Spolsky, and Richard Walsh. Among the works analyzed are plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected. Finally, while each of the essays is unique in style and methodological approach, together they show the way toward a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

Author / Editor information

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism; Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; the MLA-award winning Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas; and Why the Humanities Matters: A Common Sense Approach.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Sciences and Humanities Matter as One Frederick Luis Aldama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. General and Theoretical Considerations
1. Arts in the Brain; or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? Herbert Lindenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Narrative as Nourishment Ellen Spolsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Narrative Empathy Suzanne Keen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward a New Semiotics of Film Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Voice and Perception: An Evolutionary Approach to the Basic Functions of Narrative Katja Mellmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Dreaming and Narrative Theory Richard Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
PART II. A Selection of New Approaches
7. Cross-Cultural Mind-Reading; or, Coming to Terms with the Ethnic Mother in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior Klarina Priborkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism Lisa Zunshine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Garden Paths and Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation in Literature and Film H. Porter Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
10. Consciousness, Ethics, and Narrative: Reading Literature in an Age of Torture Patrick Colm Hogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
11. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth Lalita Pandit Hogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: May 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780292793125