Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing

ISBN-13: 9780190050955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Karin Kukkonen

Recenzje

What is a book? Using a ground-breaking mixture of literary theory, philosophy, and cognitive science, Karin Kukonnen argues that literary constructions and even intertextual references are best understood as probability designs - artificial structures that push, pull, and tweak our webs of probabilistic expectation. The result is a new and compelling way of looking at how minds like ours are affected by some of our most familiar, yet truly deeply strange, creations."-Andy Clark, author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

O autorze

Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Her work investigates how the novel emerged as a genre designed for particular cognitive and emotional engagements and how the poetics of earlier periods and cognitive poetics today can speak to each other. At the University of Oslo, Kukkonen heads the interdisciplinary research and teaching initiative "Literature, Cognition and Emotions" (2019-2023).