The Lechter Institute for Literary Research and The Lewis Fund for International Conferences are sponsoring an international conference |
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Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 4-7 June 2001 By investigating the work of fiction, we investigate both its purposes and its processes. What work does it do, and how does it do it? What cognitive abilities does it mobilize, like or unlike other kinds of cognition? What can we learn by approaching these questions from a neurological, a computational, an evolutionary, a pedagogical, or a historical/ cultural level? We are particularly interested, at this conference, to explore texts at the high end of the scale of either formal or philosophical complexity, on the assumption that these are the fictions that provide the greatest challenge to the cognitive/ theoretical description of fictions it is our aim to produce. Inquiries to Ellen Spolsky at the Lechter Institute. |
WORKSHOPS AND ROUNDTABLES |
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Chair/Moderator
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David Hanauer
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Metaphor Comprehension
as Problem Solving: An On-Line Study of the Reading Process |
Meir Sternberg
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Cross-Cultural Cognitive Studies of Literature |
Francis Steen
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Teaching
Literature / Literature as Teaching: Practical Applications of Cognitive Approaches |
Lisa Zunshine
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Richardson's Clarissa and the Traps of Mind Reading |
Return to the Lechter Institute
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Matisse, Fall of Icarus
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Maintained by Francis F. Steen, Department of English, University of California Santa Barbara |