Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts / / ed. by Frederick Luis Aldama.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Aldama, Frederick Luis,
• MitwirkendeR: Colm Hogan, Patrick,; Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier,; Keen, Suzanne,; Lindenberger, Herbert,; Luis Aldama, Frederick,; Mellmann, Katja,; Pandit Hogan, Lalita,; Porter Abbott, H.,; Priborkin, Klarina,; Spolsky, Ellen,; Walsh, Richard,; Zunshine, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general reader as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman, Lalita Pandit Hogan, Klarina Priborkin, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ellen Spolsky, and Richard Walsh. Among the works analyzed are plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected. Finally, while each of the essays is unique in style and methodological approach, together they show the way toward a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Sciences and Humanities Matter as One -- PART I. General and Theoretical Considerations -- 1. Arts in the Brain; or, What Might Neuroscience Tell Us? -- 2. Narrative as Nourishment -- 3. Narrative Empathy -- 4. The Biolinguistic Turn: Toward a New Semiotics of Film -- 5. Voice and Perception: An Evolutionary Approach to the Basic Functions of Narrative -- 6. Dreaming and Narrative Theory -- PART II. A Selection of New Approaches -- 7. Cross-Cultural Mind-Reading; or, Coming to Terms with the Ethnic Mother in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior -- 8. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism -- 9. Garden Paths and Ineffable Effects: Abandoning Representation in Literature and Film -- 10. Consciousness, Ethics, and Narrative: Reading Literature in an Age of Torture -- 11. Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index