Part I: Narrative, History, Imagination
Cognitive Historicism
1. Mary Thomas Crane / Cognitive Historicism: Intuition in Early Modern Thought
2. Ellen Spolsky / The Biology of Failure, the Forms of Rage, and the Equity of Revenge
3. Natalie M. Phillips / Literary Neuroscience and History of Mind: An Interdisciplinary fMRI Study of Attention and Jane Austen
Cognitive Narratology
4. Peter Rabinowitz / Toward a Narratology of Cognitive Flavor
5. H. Porter Abbott / How Do We Read What Isn't There to Be Read? Shadow Stories and Permanent Gaps
6. James Phelan / Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison's 'Recitatif': From Parallel Play to Productive Collaboration
7. Alan Palmer / Listen to the Stories!: Narrative, Cognition and Country and Western Music
8. Monika Fludernik / Blending in Cartoons: The Production of Comedy
9. Lisa Zunshine / From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone from a Cognitive Perspective
Cognitive Queer Theory
10. J. Keith Vincent / Sex on the Mind: Queer Theory Meets Cognitive Theory
Neuroaesthetics
11. Alan Richardson / Imagination: Literary and Cognitive Intersections
12. Gabrielle Starr / Theorizing Imagery, Aesthetics and Doubly-Directed States
Part II: Emotions and Empathy
Emotions in Literature, Film, and Theater
13. Patrick Colm Hogan / What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion: Synthesizing Affective Science and Literary Study
14. Carl Plantinga / Facing Others: Close-ups of Faces in Narrative Film and in The Silence of the Lambs
15. Noël Carroll / Theater and the Emotion
Cognitive Postcolonial Studies
16. Patrick Colm Hogan / The Psychology of Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Cognitive Approaches to Identity and Empathy
17. Suzanne Keen / Human Rights Discourse and Universals of Cognition and Emotion: Postcolonial Fiction
Decision Theory and Fiction
18. William Flesch / Reading and Bargaining
Cognitive Disability Studies
19. Ralph James Savarese / What Some Autistics Can Teach Us About Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach
Moral Emotions
20. Margrethe Bruun Vaage / On the Repulsive Rapist, and the Difference Between Morality in Fiction and Real Life
21. Fritz Alwin Breithaupt / Empathic Sadism. How Readers Get Implicated
Part III: The New Unconscious
22. Blakey Vermeule / The New Unconscious: A Literary Guided Tour
23. Jeff Smith / Filmmakers as Folk Psychologists: How Filmmakers Exploit Cognitive Biases as an Aspect of Film Narration, Characterization and Spectatorship
Part IV: Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature
24. Laura Otis / The Value of Qualitative Research for Cognitive Literary Studies
25. Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon / Revisiting the Metaphor of 'Transportation'
26. Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi / Fluctuation in Literary Reading: The Neglected Dimension of Time
Part V: Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience
27. Joshua Landy / Mental Calisthenics and Self-Reflexive Fiction
28. Elaine Auyoung / Rethinking the Reality Effect: Detail and the Novel
29. Mark Bruhn / Time as Space in the Structure of (Literary) Experience: The Prelude
30. Nancy Easterlin / Thick Context: Novelty in Cognition and Literature.