Restoring the human context to literary and performance studies : voices in everything / Howard Mancing, Jennifer Marston William.
Mancing, Howard, 1941- author.; William, Jennifer Marston, author.
2022
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Title Restoring the human context to literary and performance studies : voices in everything / Howard Mancing, Jennifer Marston William.
Author Mancing, Howard, 1941- author.
ISBN 9783030890780 (electronic bk.)
3030890783 (electronic bk.)
3030890775
9783030890773
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89078-0
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-89078-0 doi
Call Number PN441
Dewey Decimal Classification 801.95
Summary Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly contradict current dominant scientific views. By contrast, this monograph promotes an alternative paradigm for literary studies, namely Contextualism, and in so doing highlights the similarities and differences among the sometimes-conflicting contemporary cognitive approaches to literature and performance, arguing not in favor of one over the other but for Contextualism as their common ground. Howard Mancing, who has recently made the transition to Professor Emeritus of Spanish at Purdue University, USA, is a renowned expert on Cervantes and Early Modern Spanish Literature, as well as a pioneer in Cognitive Literary Studies. He has published two monographs: The Chivalric World of Don Quixote: Style, Structure, and Narrative (1982) and Miguel de Cervantes on Quixote A Reference Guide (2006), and coedited three volumes of essay collections. In addition, he authored the two-volume Cervantes Encyclopedia in 2004. Howard has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters on Cognitive Studies topics such as embodied cognition, narrative and affect and Theory of Mind representations in literature. Jennifer Marston William is a Professor of German with specializations in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and film. She is currently serving as the Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, USA. Jennifer's second monograph, Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film: Seeing is Not Believing, was published with Palgrave in 2017, and she has published scholarly articles and book chapters on conceptual metaphor and on literary analyses from the perspective of Theory of Mind. She is also a co-founder, with Howard Mancing, of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue, which has existed since 2008 and was recently renamed the Center for Neurohumanities.
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Added Author William, Jennifer Marston, author.
Series Cognitive studies in literature and performance.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Human Contexts of Literary Studies
Part I: Linguistics and the Legacy of Bakhtin's Philosophy of Language
Chapter 2. Saussurean Linguistics and Bakhtin's Critique
Chapter 3. On Theory, Rewriting Saussure, and Chomsky
Chapter 4. Bakhtin and His Echoes
Part II: Biology, Language, and the Brain
Chapter 5. Evolution and Language
Chapter 6. The Brain
Chapter 7. Development of the Brain
Part III: Psychology and the Development of the "Literary Mind"
Chapter 8. The Mind at Work
Chapter 9. Development of the Mind
Chapter 10. Theory of Mind (ToM)
Part IV: Context in Science and the Humanities
Chapter 11. Cognitivism
Chapter 12. Contextualism
Chapter 13. Evolutionary Psychology
Part V: Contextualism changing the Paradigm in Literary and Performance Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 14. Cognitive Literary Studies
Chapter 15. Cognitive Approaches to Performance Studies
Chapter 16: Conclusion: The Bridging Function of Contextualism and the Cognitive Paradigm.

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