This session addresses the intersection of literary studies and
cognitive science. Ever since Norman Holland and ReuvenTsur laid down
their pioneer work,the resulting new field of cognitive literary studies
has been a truly multi-directional endeavor, engaging scholars from many
disciplines in interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations. When
literary scholars track down the processes of attention, perception,
learning, memory, problem solving, memory, reasoning, emotions and
empathy, they often travel to a “foreign land for new insights” in
cognitive neuroscience. The idea is to brake with the traditional
science-humanities dichotomy and to make use of empirical methodologies
which can provide fruitful evidence to the practice of literary
criticism.
The organizers welcome contributions on the theory of cognitive
literary studies, on experimental empirical research in the field of
literature, and on close-readings of literary texts.
Topics may include:
Experimental/empirical research in literary studies
Cognitive psychology and cognitive poetics
Cognitive linguistics and literary studies
Cognitive semiotics and literary studies
Theory of mind and literature
Empirical reader-response criticism
Cognitive processes described in the text
Empirical research on emotions of the narrator/emotions of the reader
The present and the future of cognitive literary studies
Please send your 250 word abstract to Ana Margarida Abrantes
([log in to unmask])and Ivett Guntersdorfer
([log in to unmask]). The ISSEI Conference will take
place in Porto, Portugal, August 4-8, 2014. Talks will be published in a
post-conference volume.
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Ivett Rita Guntersdorfer, Ph.D.
Dozentin
Junior Year in Munich
an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Richard-Wagner-Str. 27
80333 München
www.jym.wayne.edu
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