Cognitive humanities [electronic resource] : embodied mind in literature and culture
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- [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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- 1 online resource
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- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Cognitive Humanities: Whence and Whither?; Notes; Part 1: Theorizing the Embodied Mind; Chapter 2: Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds; Fictional Worlds and Deictic Shifts; Fictionality, Self-Reflection and Imagined Spaces; Literary Imagining as Enactive Perception; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis; Transparencies and the 'Interpretive Cognition' Framework, Affective Patterns, Moods, Perception: Opacity and the Interpretive Mind in Kate Chopin's The AwakeningNotes; Chapter 4: 'Un-Walling' the Wall: Embodiment and Viewpoint; Embodied Construal and Viewpoint; How to Un-wall the Wall: Re-construal and Its Interpretive Consequences; Materiality, Embodiment and Genre Conventions; Creativity and Meaning; Notes; Chapter 5: Textures of Thought: Theatricality, Performativity and the Extended/Enactive Debate; Bringing Forth: Magnitudes of Enaction; Standing In: Extension and Its Discontents; Cognitive Ecology: Textures of Thought?; Notes, Part 2: Reading CultureChapter 6: Extending the Renaissance Mind: 'Look What Thy Memory Cannot Contain'; Renaissance Textuality and Memory; 'Sonnet 77'; Notes; Chapter 7: 'Her Silence Flouts Me': Stillness in The Taming of the Shrew; Cognitive Underload; Offline Cognition; Failed Performances, Overlapping Performances; Conclusions: What Types of Stillness Are We Buying Into?; Notes; Chapter 8: From World to Worldview: An Energy Principle of Psychosocial Dynamics; Energy Is Everywhere: Fictive Life-Energy in Story and Theory, Energy-Patterns in Metaphoric Narrative: Lyric Poetry and Prose FictionIntuitive Worldview: Forms of Imagined Energy; Energy, or Umph-Stuff; Burke vs. Paine: Worldviews as Energy-Models; Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; SDs + Expressions; Burke's Model; Paine, Rights of Man; SDs + Expressions; Paine's Model; Conclusions; Notes; Part 3: Cognitive Futures; Chapter 9: Bayesian Bodies: The Predictive Dimension of Embodied Cognition and Culture1; Probability, Embodied Cognition and the Narrative; Patterned Practice; Reading the Cheshire Cat; Notes, and Chapter 10: Emergences: Towards a Cognitive-Affective Model for Creativity in the ArtsFrontal Lobes and Disinhibition; Neurds and Nodes; Pleasure, Reward and Affect; Towards a Cognitive Affective Model; Notes; Chapter 11: Autism in the Wild: Bridging the Gap Between Experiment and Experience; Notes; Appendix; Transcript; Preliminary Exchange; Rhythmic Exchanges; Chapter 12: Hardware, Software, Wetware: Cognitive Science and Biohacking in the Digital Humanities; The Digital and the Cognitive; Transhumanism and DH (and More); Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Summary:
- This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation--a Cartesian inner theatre--than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but engaging much more extensively with '4E' cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind through culture. .
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- ISBN:
- 9781137593290 (electronic bk.)
1137593296 (electronic bk.) - Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2016
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- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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