The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese

Narrative ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph James Savarese ◽  
Lisa Zunshine
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Cognitive Approaches To Literature ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

Complexities of cognition in poetic art: Matthew Arnold's “The Last Word”

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
Conceptual Reasoning ◽  
Cognitive Approaches To Literature ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
The Way

Abstract The cognitive complexity of Matthew Arnold's poem “The Last Word” has resulted in diverging literary critical evaluations. By applying several cognitive approaches to the poem, I develop a reading that reveals the poem's underlying coherence. I then address the question of how that reading might reflect Arnold's own intentions and motivations in responding to adversaries of his social criticism. In doing so, I hope to present a way of showing how both cognitive approaches to literature and traditional literary expertise complement each other in contributing to our understanding of the complexities of human minding: the integration of sensations, emotions, and conceptual reasoning that constitute the way we experience and interact with each other and the world of which we are a part.

Surface, Depth, and the Spatial Imaginary: A Cognitive Reading of The Political Unconscious

2009 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Thomas Crane
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Unconscious ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
Cognitive Approaches To Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

This essay argues that cognitive approaches to literature are less widely used than they might be if they offered a hermeneutic practice in addition to providing insight about the ways in which texts are produced and read. It offers a history of the spatial metaphors of surface and depth that structure Jameson's interpretive practice in The Political Unconscious, arguing that Jameson deploys spatial metaphors in order to negotiate aporiae that are not reconcilable in theory.

A Narrative of National Reform: Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (2005)

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Richard A. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Brazilian Population ◽  
Economic Disparity ◽  
National Group ◽  
Cognitive Approaches To Literature ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

Abstract Quanto vale ou é por quilo? tells the story of two groups of characters: one that profits from the continued misery of much of the Brazilian population, and another that tries to expose and punish those in the private and political sectors who are responsible for such exploitation. By exploring parallels between a time marked by African slavery in Brazil and the presumably more illuminated present, the film attempts to lay bare a systemic social and economic disparity that continues to be intertwined with race. This article hypothesizes that the narrative locates the solution for some of the nation’s woes in the realm of social identity. More specifically, it argues that the film proposes that the country’s pernicious inequities are grounded in the perpetuation of nefarious and persistent attributes in understandings of Brazilianness among much of the population. If Brazil is to improve, the film advises, then prevailing definitions of the national group must be modified. Drawing on research in social psychology, and work in the area of cognitive approaches to literature and culture, this article seeks to decipher what sort of intervention on identity the film is making, and which of its elements might lead to influencing viewers’ social identities.

Cognitive Approaches to Motivation and Emotion: Colonization or Integration?

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-300
Author(s):  
James P. Connell ◽  
James G. Wellborn
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Approaches

Disability Studies Committee

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie J. Ackerman ◽  
Monica Kurylo
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies
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