CONVERSATIONS ON COGNITIVE CULTURAL STUDIES: LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND AESTHETICS

Book ID/图书代码： 12873516B92747

English Summary/英文概要： In recent years, few areas of research have advanced as rapidly as cognitive science, the study of the human mind and brain. A fundamentally interdisciplinary field, cognitive science has both inspired and been advanced by work in the arts and humanities. In Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics, Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm Hogan, two of the most prominent experts on the intersection of mind, brain, and culture, engage each other in a lively dialog that sets out the foundations of a cognitive neuroscientific approach to literature. Despite their shared premises, Aldama and Hogan differ—sometimes sharply—on key issues; their discussion therefore presents the reader not with a single doctrine, but with options for consideration—an appropriate result in this dynamic field.

With clarity and learning, Aldama and Hogan consider five central topics at the intersection of literature and cognitive science. They begin with the fundamental question of the nature of the self. From here, they turn to language, communication, and thought before moving on to the central issue of the structure and operation of narrative. The book concludes with thought-provoking explorations of aesthetics and politics. Illustrating their arguments with work that ranges from graphic fiction and popular cinema to William Faulkner and Bertolt Brecht, Aldama and Hogan leave the reader with a clear sense of what cognitive cultural studies have already achieved and the significant promise the discipline holds for the future.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书为“新世纪英语语言文学界面研究丛书”之一。本书作为学科间的界面研究，试图从认知科学的角度解读文本，探究其中的语言、文化和美学观点，全书主要关注五个方面，它们分别是自身的本质，语言的艺术和科学，叙事小说的主人公视角，美学的科学探究，文本中的历史、文化、政治和种族。作者是语言与认知科学领域的两位专家，在书中他们侃侃而谈，旁征博引，观点时有不同，有时又互为补充，使读者在阅读的同时仿佛享受两种思想的交锋，生动有趣，充满思辨。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况："Aldama and Hogan’s refreshing "Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies "begins with an exemplary brief introduction to cognitive theory for a literary and cultural studies readership. It then opens up into an accessible, thoughtful dialogue, revealing areas of contention, mystery, and potential discovery. This meeting of minds ranges as widely in its discussion as it delves deeply into its core topics of language, the self, narrative, aesthetics, ethics, and culture. The discussions it will stimulate, at symposia and in seminars, will benefit from the authors’ capacious frames of reference and imaginative questing for truths and explanations beyond the boundaries of traditional literary studies."--Suzanne Keen, Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English and Dean of the College, Washington and Lee University.

"This book of conversations discovers a superb format for the treatment of theoretical problems, for it allows its two authors, each bringing his own distinct perspective and background to the discussion, to engage with each other and zero in on an uncommonly wide range of aesthetic concerns--among many others, the role of linguistics in understanding literature and the insights that neuroscience offers to the arts." --Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, Stanford University

"In "Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics, " Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm Hogan illuminate the myriad implications of cognitive studies for the study of literature. Scrutinizing issues ranging from subjectivity to aesthetics to history and politics, they seek ever greater precision in our methods and assumptions. This lively critical dialogue is sure to spark much-needed thought and discussion."--Sue J. Kim, author of "On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative"

""Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies" gives a strong sense of cognitive studies in their present state of organization, as represented by two of its most respected and best informed spokesmen, who are seen grappling with basic and, in some cases, still unresolved problems in aesthetics." --Irving Massey, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature, University at Buffalo

About the Author/作者介绍： Patrick Colm Hogan is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. He is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Program, the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the India Studies Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003), hailed by Steven Pinker of Harvard University as ’a landmark in modern intellectual life’, and the editor or co-editor of four books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University, where he founded and directs LASER/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment and Research. His many books include Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory, Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez, and Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts.

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