Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
3 total works
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
by J Gottschall and Instructor Jonathan Gottschall
Published 1 January 2008
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip.
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Graphing Jane Austen
by J Carroll, J Gottschall, John A Johnson, and Daniel J. Kruger
Published 24 April 2012
This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster.
Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
by Joseph Carroll, Instructor Jonathan Gottschall, John A Johnson, and Daniel J. Kruger
Published 1 January 2012