ENGL 569: Cognitive Poetics

Texts

contains several of the texts referred to or analysed in the readings

Readings

Boyd, Brian (1998). Jane, Meet Charles: Literature, Evolution and Human Nature. Philosophy and Literature, 22, 1-30.

Crane, Mary Thomas, and Richardson, Alan (1999). Literary Studies and Cognitive Science: Toward a New Interdisciplinarity. Mosaic, 32, 123-40.

Dancygier, Barbara (2006). What Can Blending Do for You? Language and Literature, 15, 5-15.

Dissanayake, Ellen (1999). 'Making Special': An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art. In Brett Cooke & Frederick Turner (Eds.), Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts (pp. 27-46). Lexington, Kentucky: ICUS.

Easterlin, Nancy (1999). Making Knowledge: Bioepistomology and the Foundations of Literary Theory. Mosaic, 32, 131-47.

Freeman, Don (1993). 'According to my bond': King Lear and Re-cognition. Language and Literature, 2 (1993): 1-18.

Freeman, Margaret (2002). Cognitive Mapping in Literary Analysis. Style, 36, 466-85.

Freeman, Margaret (2006). Blending: A Response. Language and Literature, 15, 107-117.

Galbraith, Mary (1995). Deictic Shift Theory and the Poetics of Involvement in Narrative. In Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (Eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (pp. 19-59). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gallese, Vittorio., & Goldmann, Alvin (1998). Mirror-Neurons: In Reflection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 493-501.

Graesser, A. C., Person, N., & Johnston, G. S. (1996). Three obstacles in empirical research on aesthetic and literary comprehension. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Literature and Aesthetics (pp. 3-22). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Hanauer, David (1998). The Genre-specific Hypothesis of Reading: Reading Poetry and Encyclopedic Items. Poetics, 26, 63-80.

Hogan, Patrick Colm (1997). Literary Universals. Poetics Today, 18, 223-249.

Jahn, Manfred (1997). Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives: Towards a Cognitive Narratology. Poetics Today, 18, 441-468.

Kneepkens, E. W. E. M., & Zwaan, Rolf A. (1995). Emotions and Literary Text Comprehension. Poetics, 23, 125-138.

Miall, David S. (in press). Enacting the Other: Towards an Aesthetics of Feeling in Literary Reading. In Anouk Lang (Ed.), Reading the Readers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Miall, David S., & Kuiken, Don (1998). The Form of Reading: Empirical Studies of Literariness. Poetics 25 (1998): 327-341.

Miall, David S., & Kuiken, Don (1999). What Is Literariness? Three Components of Literary Reading. Discourse Processes, 28, 121-138.

Nelson, Katherine (2003). Narrative and the Emergence of a Consciousness of Self. In Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., & Owen J. Flanagan (Eds.), Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain (pp. 2-36). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oatley, Keith (1999). Meetings of Minds: Dialogue, Sympathy, and Identification, in Reading Fiction. Poetics, 26, 439-454.

Richardson, Alan (1999). Cognitive Science and the Future of Literary Studies. Philosophy and Literature, 23, 157-73.

Richardson, Alan (2004). Studies in Literature and Cognition: A Field map. In Alan Richardson & Ellen Spolsky (Eds.), The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity (pp. 1-29). Aldershot: Ashgate.

Turner, Mark (2002). The Cognitive Study of Art, Language, and Literature. Poetics Today, 23, 9-20.

Turner, Mark, & Fauconnier, Gilles (1999). A Mechanism of Creativity. Poetics Today, 20, 397-418.

Zunshine, Lisa (2003). Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness. Narrative, 11, 270-291.

Zwaan, Rolf A. (1991). Some parameters of literary and news comprehension: Effects of discourse-type perspective on reading rate and surface structure representation. Poetics, 20, 139-156.

Zwaan, Rolf A., Magliano, Joseph P., & Graesser, Art C. (1995). Dimensions of Situation Model Construction in Narrative Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 386-397.

Zwaan, Rolf A., & Radvansky, Gabriel A. (1998). Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 162-185.

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