Bibliography of Cognitive Science and Literature

Anderson, David R.; "Razing the Framework: Reader-Response Criticism After Fish." . In After Post-Structuralism: Interdisciplinarity and Literary Theory, pp. 155-76. Edited by Nancy Easterlin and Barbara Riebling. Evanston: Northwestern U. Press

Benzon, William; "The Evolution of Narrative and the Self" , Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 16 (1993), pp. 129-155.

Benzon, Willam; "Cognitive Networks and Literary Semantics " , Modern Language Notes 91 (1976), pp. 952-982.

Benzon, William; "Articulate Vision: A Structuralist Reading of "Kubla Khan"" , Language and Style 18 (1985), pp. 251-270.

Benzon, William; "Metaphor, Recognition, and Neural Process" , American Journal of Semiotics 5 (1987), pp. 59-80.

co-authored with David G. Hays

Benzon, William; "Lust in Action: An Abstraction" , Language and Style 14 (1981), pp. 251-270.

Benzon, William; "Lust in Action: An Abstraction " , Language and Style 14 (1981), pp. 251-270.

Benzon, William; "Computational Linguistics and the Humanist" , Computers and the Humanities 10 (1976), pp. 265-274.

co-authored with David Hays

Bienz, John; "The Temple as Conceptual Metaphor" , George Herbert Journal 21 (Fall, 1997/Spring, 1998), pp. 1-18.

Volume 21 of the George Herbert Journal was released in summer, 1999.

Brandl, Mark Staff; "The Expanded Text Concept and Central Metaphor in Painting and the Novel" . In Medien Lesen : Der Textbegriff in der Medienwissenschaft (Reading Media: The Expanded Text Concept in Media Studies), pp. 86-112. Edited by Daniel Ammann, Heinz Moser & Roger Vaissiere. Zurich: Verlag Pestalozzianum, 1999.

The essay is in English followed by a summary in German. The rest of the volume of essays is in German.

Brandl, Mark Staff; "The Expanded Text Concept and Central Metaphor in Painting and the Novel" . In Medien Lesen : Der Textbegriff in der Medienwissenschaft (Reading Media: The Expanded Text Concept in Media Studies), pp. pp. 86-112. Edited by Daniel Ammann, Heinz Moser & Roger Vaissiere. Zurich: Verlag Pestalozzianum, 1999.

The essay is in English followed by a summary in German. The rest of the volume of essays is in German.

Brandl, Mark Staff; "The Expanded Text Concept and Central Metaphor in Painting and the Novel" . In Medien Lesen : Der Textbegriff in der Medienwissenschaft (Reading Media: The Expanded Text Concept in Media Studies), pp. 86-112. Edited by Daniel Ammann, Heinz Moser & Roger Vaissiere. Zurich: Verlag Pestalozzianum, 1999.

The essay is in English followed by a summary in German. The rest of the volume of essays is in German.

Danesi, Marcel; "Cognitive Science: Toward a Vichian Perspective" . In Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science: Philosophy and Writing, pp. 63-85. Edited by Danesi, Marcel (ed. & bibliog.); Verna, Anthony . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Keywords: Italian literature; 1700-1799; Vico, Giambattista; La scienza nuova; prose; treatment of mind; relationship to cognitive science

Danesi, Marcel; "Vico and Cognitive Science" . In The Imaginative Basis of Thought and Culture: Contemporary Perspectives on Giambattista Vico. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, pp. 47-70. Edited by Danesi, Marcel (ed.); Nuessel, Frank (ed.).. Toronto: Canadian Scholars'

Keywords: Italian literature; 1700-1799; Vico, Giambattista; relationship to cognitive science

Duchan, Judith F. and Bruder, Gail A.; & Hewitt, Lynne E.; Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective , Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

Feagin, Susan ; Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation , Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

"I develop a theory of empathy that draws on accounts of mental simulation (of the sort that Robert Gordon and Alvin Goldman have developed for philosophical purposes, utilizing views developed by cognitive scientists)."

Gardner, Howard and Ellen Winner. Th ; "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" , Critical Inquiry 5 pp. 123-41.

Gerrig, Richard J.; Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading , New Haven: Yale UP

Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr; The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding , Cambridge: Cambridge UP

Graham, Gordon; " Aesthetic Cognitivism and the Literary Arts " , Journal of Aesthetic Education 30 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-17.

Gregory, Schrempp ; "Folklore and Science: Inflections of 'Folk' in Cognitive Research" , Journal of Folklore Research 33 no. 3 pp. 191-206.

Hobbs, Jerry; Literature and Cognition , Stanford : Center for the Study of Language and Information

Hoffman, Robert R., and Richard P. Honeck; " A Peacock Looks at Its Legs: Cognitive Science and Figurative Language" . In Cognition and Figurative Language, pp. 3-24. Edited by Richard P. Honeck and Robert R. Hoffman. Hillsdale : Erlbaum

Hogan, Patrick Holm; "Toward a Cognitive Science of Poetics: Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, and the Theory of Literature " , College Literature 23 p. 164f.

Hogan, Patrick Colm; "Toward a Cognitive Science of Poetics: Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, and the Theory of Literature. " , College Literature 23(1) p. 164f..

Holland, Norman N; The Brain of Robert Frost , New York : Routledge

Honeck, Richard P.; " Introduction: Figurative Language and Cognitive Science Past, Present, and Future" , Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 11 p. 1f..

Honeck, Richard P. (ed.); "10th Anniversary Special Issue: Figurative Language and Cognitive Science" , Metaphor and Symbolic Activity vol. 11 no. 1

Kroeber, Karl.; Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. , New York: Columbia UP

Mergler, , Nancy; and Schleifer, Ronald; "Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures, Semiotics, and Cognitive Science" , New Orleans Review vol. 18 no. 1, Spring pp. 64-75.

Miall, D. S.; "Anticipation and feeling in literary response: A neuropsychological perspective." , Poetics 23 pp. 275-298.

Paulson, William; "Literature, Complexity, Interdisciplinarity" . In Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, pp. 37-53. Edited by Hayles, N. Katherine (ed.). Chicago : U of Chicago Press

Keywords: literary theory and criticism; relationship to information theory; cognitive processes; science; application of chaos theory

Paulson, William; " Literature, Complexity, Interdisciplinarity" . In Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, pp. 37-52. Edited by N.Katherine Hayles. Chicago: Chicago UP

Reuven, Tsur; What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive: The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception , Durham: Duke UP

Rubin, David ; Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes , New York and Oxford: Oxford U. Press

Saunders, Ian; " M. Turner, Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science" , The Review of English Studies 46 p. 130f..

Scarry, Elaine; "On Vivacity: The Difference Between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial Instruction." , Representations 52 pp. 1-26.

Schank , Rober C; Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence. , Evanston: Northwestern UP

Simon, Herbert; "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach." , Stanford Humanties Review 4:1 pp. 1-26.

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

Turner, Mark ; The Literary Mind , Oxford: Oxford University Press

Turner, Mark ; Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science , Princeton : Princeton University Press

Turner, Frederick; Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science , New York: Paragon House

Verna, Anthony; and Marcel Danesi; "An Overview of Recent Anglo-American Vico Scholarship for the Contemporary Behavioral, Social, and Cognitive Sciences" . In Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science: Philosophy and Writing, pp. 213-35. Edited by Danesi, Marcel (ed. & bibliog.); Verna, Anthony . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Italian literature; 1700-1799; Vico, Giambattista; La scienza nuova; prose; influence on Anglo-American scholarship

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