Reading List - A
Primary Reading: Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Oxford World's Classics. This text is available from Akatemika. Please read it in preparation for the course. We will revisit it throughout the course to illustrate theoretical points.
Secondary Reading. These texts will be available through Canvas.
Armstrong, Paul. 2013. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP: (excerpt)
Bortolussi, Marisa and Peter Dixon. 2003. Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (excerpt)
Bernini, Marco. 2014. “Supersizing Narrative Theory: On Intention, Material Agency and Extended Mind-Workers” Style 48.3: 349-366.
Caracciolo, Marko. “The Reader’s Virtual Body: Narrative Space and Its Reconstruction.”
Storyworlds 2: 117-138
Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. (excerpt)
Carroll, Joseph. 2008. “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study” Style 42.2-3: 103-134.
Cave, Terence. 2017. “Situated Cognitive: The Literary Archive” Poetics Today 38.2: 235-253.
Collini, Stefan. 2013. “Introduction” The Two Cultures. New York: Cambridge University Press (excerpt)
Easterlin, Nancy. 2013. “The Functions of Literature and the Evolution of the Extended Mind” New Literary History 44.4: 661-682.
Fludernik, Monika. “Narratology in the 21st Century: The Cognitive Approach to Narrative.” PMLA 125.4 (2010): 924-30.
Fludernik. Towards a Natural Narratology. London: Routledge, 1996. (excerpt)
Gould, Steven Jay. 2011. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities. Cambridge: Harvard UP: (excerpt)
Gottschall, Jonathan. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. (excerpt)
Herman, David. Storytelling and the Sciences of the Mind. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.(excerpt)
Kidd, David Comer, and Emmanuele Castano. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.” Science 341 (2013): 377-380.
Kramnick, Jonathan. 2011. “Against Literary Darwinism” Critical Inquiry37.2: 315-347.
Kukkonen, Karin. Proability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing. (excerpt)
Landy, Joshua. “Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities.” Poetics Today 33.2 (2012): 169-216.
Malabou, Catherine. 2016. “What is Neuro-Literature?” Substance 45.2: 78-87.
Polvinen, Merja. “Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction.” Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Ed. Troscianko and Burke. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. 135-150
Spolsky, Ellen. 2002. “Darwin and Derrida: Cognitive Literary Theory as a Species of Poststructuralism” Poetics Today 23.1: 43-62.
Stockwell, Peter. “Cognitive Poetics and Literary Theory.” Journal of Literary Theory 1.1. (2007): 135-152.
Troscianko, Emily. 2014. Kafka’s Cognitive Realism. New York: Routledge (excerpt).
Troscianko, Emily T., and Michael Burke. “Introduction: A Window on to the Landscape of Cognitive Literary Science.” Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Ed. Michael Burke and Emily T. Troscianko. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. 1-13.
Turner, Mark. The Literary Mind. Oxford: OUP, year?. (excerpt)
Zunshine, Lisa. “Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness.” Narrative 11.3 (2003): 270-191.
Additional Reading List - B
Primary Reading: Ovid, Heroides. Loeb Classical Library (Latin / English translation). This text is available from Akatemika. Please read it in preparation for the course. We will revisit it throughout the course to illustrate theoretical points.
Secondary Reading. These texts will be available through Canvas.
Boyd, Brian. “Jane, Meet Charles: Literature, Evolution, and Human Nature.” Philosophy and Literature 22.1 (1998): 1-30
Cave, Terence. "Openings." Thinking with Literature: Toward a Cognitive Criticism. Ed. Cave. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.
Clark, Andy. 2014. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Oxford: OUP (excerpt).
Dissanayake, Ellen. “Making Special: An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art, (1999): 27-46
Graesser, Person & Johnston. 1996. Three Obstacles in Empirical Research on Aesthetic and Literary Comprehension, pp. 4-22
Kukkonen, Karin. “The Curse of Realism: Cognitive Narratology and the Historical Dimension.” Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 16.2 (2018): 291-302.
Malabou, Catherine. 2008. What Should We Do With Our Brain? New York: Fordham University Press. (excerpt)
Miall, David S. "An Evolutionary Framework for Literary Theory." Miall, David S. Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies. New York: Peter Lang, n.d. 189-202.
Nalbantian, Suzanne, Matthews, Paul M., and James L. McClelland, eds. The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives. Cambridge: MIT P, 2011. (excerpts)
Oatley, Keith. “On Truth and Fiction.” Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. Ed. Michael Burke and Emily T. Troscianko. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. 259-278.
Vermeule, Blakey. Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. (excerpt)
Palmer, Alan. 2011. “Social Minds in Fiction and Criticism” Style 45.2: 196-240.
Phelan, James. “Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’: From Parallel Play to Productive Collaboration.” The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. Ed. Lisa Zunshine. New York: OUP, 2015. 120-135.
Richardson, Alan. “Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections.” The OxfordHandbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. Ed. Lisa Zunshine. New York: OUP, 2015. 225-245.
Tribble, Evelyn. 2005. “Distributing Cognition in the Globe” Shakespeare Quarterly 56.2:135-155.
Van Peer, Willie. 1990. “The Measurement of Metre: Its Affective and Cognitive Functions” Poetics 19: 259-275.
Miall, D.S. "Science in the perspective of literariness." SSOL 1.1 (2011): 7-14.