Main Forum Session Program
Literature and the Cognitive Revolution
Chair: Martha Woodmansee
 

Main Forum:
Literature and the Cognitive Revolution
 
The main session aims to provide a theoretical basis for the task of negotiating the role of the cognitive sciences for literary studies. Mark Turner, whose Reading Minds: The Study of Literature in the Age of Cognitive Science appeared in 1991, will begin with an overview of the history and development of the field. Ellen Spolsky, one of the pioneers in the cognitive study of literature, elaborates on the major theme of the forum: the historicization of the cognitive approach. Patrick Colm Hogan broadens the scope further by including a multicultural perspective. Finally, the noted literary theorist Paul Hernadi considers the possibility of cross-cultural literary universals.

 

Main Forum Session Program
Literature and the Cognitive Revolution
Chair: Martha Woodmansee