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COGNITIVE CRITICISM

ASSOCIATIONS

• Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

CONFERENCES

2009:

• 7th International Conference, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, June 24-27, 2009
• Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts 3, Lincoln School of Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, May 16-18

2008:

• Otherness and the Arts, University of Aarhus, August 8-9
• Literary Reading and Emotion, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, July 13-14
• Cognitive Classics, Royal Holloway College and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and Open University, July 4-5

2007:

• Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts 2, Second International Conference, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, May 5-7

2006:

• Mind, Art and Beauty, University of Leeds, August 24-25

2005:

• Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, May 7-9

2004:

• Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice, Department of English and Finnish School of Graduate Literary Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 27-29

• 3rd Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, March 4-6

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of Florida: The Brain and the Book (Holland)

JOURNALS

• Arts and Neurosciences

• Consciousness and the Arts and Literature

• Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

PERSONS

• Reuven Tsur (1932 - )

• Mark Turner (1954 - )

• Partick Colm Hogan ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Rodopi: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (General Editor: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Fireman, Gary D., Ted E. McVay, and Owen J. Flanagan, eds.  Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.
  • Gavins, Joanna, and Gerard Steen, eds.  Cognitive Poetics in Practice.  London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Herman, David, ed.  Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences.  Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003.
  • Martindale, Colin, et al., eds.  Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.  New York: , 2007.
  • Semino, Elena, and Jonathan Culpepper, eds.  Cognitive Stylistics.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.
  • Steen, Francis, and Alan Richardson, eds.  Special Issue on Literature and the Cognitive Revolution.  Poetics Today 23.1 (2002).

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bourbon, Brett.  Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

  • Easterlin, Nancy. 

  • Hart, F. Elizabeth. 

  • Hobbs, Jerry.  Literature and Cognition.  Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1990.

  • Holloway, John.  The Slumber of Apollo: Reflections on Recent Art, Literature, Language and the Individual Consciousness.  Cambridge: CUP, 1983. 

  • Jackson, Tony.  "Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism."  Poetics Today 21 (2000): 319-47.

  • Lodge, David.  Consciousness and the Novel.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002.

  • Miall, David.  "Anticipation and Feeling in Literary Response: a Neuropsychological Perspective."  Poetics 22 (1995): 275-98.

  • Miall, David, and Don Kuiken.  "Foregrounding: Defamiliarization, and Affect: Response to Literary Stories."  Poetics 22 (1994): 389-407.

  • Richardson, Alan, and Mary Thomas Crane.  "Literary Studies and Cognitive Science: Toward a New Interdisciplinarity."  Mosaic 32.2 (1999): 123-140.

  • Robinson, Jenefer.  Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.

  • Rubin, David C.  Memory in Oral Traditions: the Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.

  • Schank, Roger C.  Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1995.

  • Spolsky, Ellen.  Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

  • Tabbi, Joseph T.  

  • Tsur, Reuven.  Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics.  Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1992.

  • Wright, Terrence.  "Reader-Response under Review: an Art, a Game, or a Science?"  Style 29 (1995): 529-48.

  • Zunshine, Lisa.  Why We Read Fiction: Theory of the Mind and the Novel.  Athens: Ohio State UP, 2006.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Franchi, Stefano, and Güven Güzeldere, eds.: Bridging the Gap: Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism Stanford Humanities Review 4.1 (1995): .

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Simon, Herbert: Literary Criticism: a Cognitive Approach Stanford Humanities Review 4.1 (1995): .

  • Zacks, Jeffrey M., et al.:

    • Reading Stories Activates Neural Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences

    • Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Stockwell, Peter.  Cognitive Poetics: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 2002.

On-Line:

• Archives:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Byatt, A. S.: Novel Thoughts Times Online November 28, 2007.

  • Freeland, Cynthia: Cognitive Science, Humanities, and the Arts Bibliography

  • Hamilton, Craig A., and Ralph Schneider: From Iser to Turner and Beyond: Reception Theory Meets Cognitive Criticism Style (2002)

  • Marche, Stephen: Reading the Brain Reading Toronto Star April 19, 2008

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Cognitive Poetics

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Europe:

• UK:

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies: MA in Theatre and Consciousness

USA:

• University of Central Arkansas: Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

• Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts (MICA)

WWW GATEWAYS

• Danaher, David S.: Cognitive Approaches to Literature

• Freeland, Cynthia: Cognitive Science, Humanities and the Arts

• Richardson, Alan: Literature, Cognition and the Brain (Boston College)

• Steen, Francis: CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies

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