Professor Kukkonen is, instead, one of a handful of emerging scholars who are attempting to take the insights of literary scholars and historians as seriously as insights emerging from the social and hard sciences; this book is one sign of that project, and clearly demonstrates some of the potentials of tools drawn from a modern cognitivist narratology.
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. She heads the interdisciplinary research priority "Literature, Cognition and Emotions" at the University of Oslo and serves on the steering committee Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities.