Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies

by Lisa Zunshine (Editor)

Overview

Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and anthropology, and cognitive linguistics. Lisa Zunshine’s introduction provides a broad overview of the field. The essays that follow are organized into four parts that explore developments in literary universals, cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, and cognitive approaches in dialogue with other theoretical approaches, such as postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and poststructuralism.

Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies provides readers with grounding in several major areas of cognitive science, applies insights from cognitive science to cultural representations, and recognizes the cognitive approach’s commitment to seeking common ground with existing literary-theoretical paradigms.

This book is ideal for graduate courses and seminars devoted to cognitive approaches to cultural studies and literary criticism.

Contributors: Mary Thomas Crane, Nancy Easterlin, David Herman, Patrick Colm Hogan, Bruce McConachie, Alan Palmer, Alan Richardson, Ellen Spolsky, G. Gabrielle Starr, Blakey Vermeule, Lisa Zunshine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421400280
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,052,689
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About the Author

Lisa Zunshine is the Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and author of Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel and Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She is the author and editor of ten books, including Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative and Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies, both also published by Johns Hopkins. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Cognitive Cultural Studies?
Part I: Literary Universals
Chapter 1. Literary Universals
Part II: Cognitive Historicism
Chapter 2. Facial Expression Theory from Romanticism to the Present
Chapter 3. making "Quite Anew": Brain Modularity and Creativity
Chapter 4. Analogy, Metaphor, and the New Science: Cognitice Science and Early Modern Epistemology
Chapter 5. Lying Bodies of the Enlightenment: Theory of Mind and Cltural Historicism
Chapter 6. Toward a Cognitive Cultural Hegemony
Part III: Cognitive Narratology
Chapter 7. Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution
Chapter 8. Storyworlds and Groups
Chapter 9. Theory of Mind and Experimental representations
Chapter 10. Machiavellian Narratives
Part IV: Cognitive Approaches in Dialogue with Other Approaches (Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, Aesthetics, Poststructuralism)
Chapter 11. On Bring Moved: Cognition and Emotion in Literature and Film
Chapter 12. Cognitive Ecocriticism: Human Wayfinding, Sociality, and Literary Interpretation
Chapter 13. Multisensory Imagery
Chapter 14. Darwin and Derrida: Cognitive Literary Theory as a Species or Post-structuralism
Notes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

An interesting exploration of the relationship between human cognition and cultural criticism that can enrich scholars in both cultural studies and cognitive psychology.
—William A. Adams, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books

This book decisively marks the entrance of cognitive science into the mainstream literary and cultural studies, offering the reader a daunting panorama of conceptual interbreeding.
—Aristie Trendel, Cercles

This is the cutting edge of literary scholarship . . . Presents a rich array of innovative approaches to textual analysis for the researcher wishing to explore the 'cognitive revolution'.
—Carol Hoggart, Cognitive Cultural Studies Review

An entertaining read.
—Ray Rennard, Metapsychology

From the Publisher

An interesting exploration of the relationship between human cognition and cultural criticism that can enrich scholars in both cultural studies and cognitive psychology.

Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books - William A. Adams

This book decisively marks the entrance of cognitive science into the mainstream literary and cultural studies, offering the reader a daunting panorama of conceptual interbreeding.

Cercles - Aristie Trendel

This is the cutting edge of literary scholarship . . . Presents a rich array of innovative approaches to textual analysis for the researcher wishing to explore the 'cognitive revolution'.

Cognitive Cultural Studies Review - Carol Hoggart

An entertaining read.

Metapsychology - Ray Rennard

This is the cutting edge of literary scholarship... Presents a rich array of innovative approaches to textual analysis for the researcher wishing to explore the 'cognitive revolution'.

— Carol Hoggart

Cognitive Cultural Studies Review

This book decisively marks the entrance of cognitive science into the mainstream literary and cultural studies, offering the reader a daunting panorama of conceptual interbreeding.

— Aristie Trendel

Cercles

An interesting exploration of the relationship between human cognition and cultural criticism that can enrich scholars in both cultural studies and cognitive psychology.

— William A. Adams

Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books