TY - BOOK T1 - A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kukkonen, Karin KW - Irish KW - Literary Criticism / European / English KW - Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century KW - Scottish KW - Welsh AB - This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind. Three key rules of neoclassicism, namely, poetic justice (the rewards and punishments of characters in the plot), the unities (the coherence of the fictional world and its extensions through the imagination) and decorum (the inferential connections between characters and their likely actions), are reconsidered in light of social cognition, embodied cognition and probabilistic, predictive cognition. The meeting between neoclassical criticism and today's research psychology, neurology and philosophy of mind yields a new perspective for cognitive literary study. Neoclassicism has a crucial contribution to make to current debates around the role of literature in cultural and cognition. Literary critics writing at the time of the scientific revolution developed a perspective on literature the question of how literature engages minds and bodies as its central concern. A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics traces the cognitive dimension of these critical debates in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and puts them into conversation with today's cognitive approaches to literature. Neoclassical theory is then connected to the praxis of eighteenth-century writers in a series of case studies that trace how these principles shaped the emerging narrative form of the novel. The continuing relevance of neoclassicism also shows itself in the rise of the novel, as A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics illustrates through examples including Pamela, Tom Jones and the Gothic novel. PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford SN - 978-0-19-065451-1 N1 - Google-Books-ID: uOMwDgAAQBAJ ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Navigating–Making Sense–Interpreting (The Reader behind La Jalousie) T2 - Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mäkelä, Maria ED - Lehtimäki, Markku ED - Karttunen, Laura ED - Mäkelä, Maria KW - Irish KW - Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative KW - Literary Criticism / European / Eastern KW - Literary Criticism / European / English KW - Literary Criticism / European / General KW - Literary Criticism / General KW - Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory KW - Scottish KW - Welsh AB -

Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking potential of individual literary narratives. Narrative, Interrupted goes beyond the macro framing typical of postclassical narratology and sets out to sketch approaches more sensitive to generic specificities, disturbing details and authorial interference. Unlike the mainstream cognitive approaches or even the emergent unnatural narratology, the articles collected here explore the artifice involved in presenting something ordinary and realistic in literature. The first section of the book deals with anti-dynamic elements such as dialogue, details, private events and literary boredom. The second section, devoted to extensions of cognitive narratology, addresses spatiotemporal oddities and the possibility of non-human narratives. The third section focuses on frame-breaking, fragmentarity and problems of authorship in the works of Vladimir Nabokov. The book presents readings of texts ranging from the novels of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon to the Animal Man comics. The common denominator for the texts discussed is the interruption of the chain of events or of the experiential flow of human-like narrative agents.

JF - Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature PB - Walter de Gruyter CY - Berlin SN - 978-3-11-025997-1 N1 - Google-Books-ID: NKXualYUt3IC ER -