Culture and Cognition : : The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry /

Culture and Cognition : : The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry / / Nancy Mergler, Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis.

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This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas-the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the dif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Schleifer, Ronald,
Davis, Robert Con,
Mergler, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Science, Cognition, and Culture
  • I. NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
  • 1. Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures and the Nature of Meaning
  • 2. Structures of Meaning: The Logic of Narrative and the Constitution of Literary Genres
  • 3. Why Are There Old People? Narration, Natural History, and the Situation of Cognition
  • II. CASES OF COGNITION
  • 4. Special Cases: Freud, Einstein, and the Dream of Understanding
  • 5. Psychoanalysis and Narration: Lacan, Greimas, and the Desire of Cognition
  • 6. The Plain Sense of Things: Aging and the Rhetoric of Narration
  • III. CULTURAL DISCOURSE
  • 7. The Institution of Criticism: Pedagogy, Publishing, and Oppositional Criticism
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index

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