From Mind to Text: Continuities and Breaks Between Cognitive, Aesthetic and Textualist Approaches to Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367667412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Bartosz Stopel

Opis

From Mind to Text: Continuities and Breaks Between Cognitive, Aesthetic and Textualist Approaches to Literature explores the historical context of theory formation and of its contemporary status.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Theories and Institutions

Again, Theory

Theories and Theorrhea

Analytic Philosophy of Art?

Chapter Two: Literature and Art

Before Theory

Works and Texts

Authors, Scriptors, Intentions

Moderately Naturalist Perspective on the Artistic Conventions

Chapter Three: Literature and Minds

Language and Cognition

Empathy and Emotions

Researching Universals

Information Processing

Chapter Four: Values and Competence

The Sublime, The Beautiful and the Everyday

Artistic and Aesthetic Values

Natural and Competent Responses

Chapter Five: Levels of Explanation

Emergent Structures and Special Sciences

Special Sciences and Literary Studies

Psycho-historical Framework for Art Appreciation

Surface and Deep Interpretation

Naked Apes, Flocks of Seagulls, Procrustean Beds

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Bartosz Stopel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.