Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studiesargues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly contradict current dominant scientific views. By contrast, this monograph promotes an alternative paradigm for literary studies, namely Contextualism, and in so doing highlights the similarities and differences among the sometimes-conflicting contemporary cognitive approaches to literature and performance, arguing...
Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studiesargues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicit...
