Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific principles underlying cognitive-literary studies
- Lays out an alternative approach to the current theoretical paradigm for literary study
- Gives concrete examples of how Contextualism has been applied productively to literary analyses so far
Part of the book series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance (CSLP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Linguistics and the Legacy of Bakhtin’s Philosophy of Language
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Biology, Language, and the Brain
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Psychology and the Development of the “Literary Mind”
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Context in Science and the Humanities
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Contextualism—Changing the Paradigm in Literary and Performance Studies for the Twenty-First Century
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jennifer Marston William is a Professor of German with specializations in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and film. She is currently serving as theHead of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, USA. Jennifer’s second monograph, Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film: Seeing is Not Believing, was published with Palgrave in 2017, and she has published scholarly articles and book chapters on conceptual metaphor and on literary analyses from the perspective of Theory of Mind. She is also a co-founder, with Howard Mancing, of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue, which has existed since 2008 and was recently renamed the Center for Neurohumanities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies
Book Subtitle: Voices in Everything
Authors: Howard Mancing, Jennifer Marston William
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89078-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89077-3Published: 29 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89080-3Published: 31 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89078-0Published: 28 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 400
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Performing Arts, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology