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Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition
An Enactive Approach to Literary Artifice
Taschenbuch von Merja Polvinen
Sprache: Englisch

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This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena.

Polvinen presents reflective attention on artifice as an integral part of engagement with fictional narratives, rather than as an external viewpoint that would obscure immersive experiences. The detailed analyses included are both of traditionally metafictional texts by John Barth, A.S. Byatt, Dave Eggers, and Ali Smith, as well as of speculative fictions by Ted Chiang, China Miéville, Christopher Priest, and Catherynne M. Valente. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific issue of fictional cognition: on metaphorical representation, spatiality, temporality, and fictionality. As a whole, the book argues that by combining a literary and theoretically complex view of artifice with the enactive paradigm of perception and imagination, practitioners of cognitive literary studies can further sharpen their own conceptual and terminological apparatus and continue to generate fruitful hermeneutic circulation around the study of the imagination in both the sciences and the humanities.

This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive approaches to literary studies, speculative fiction, metafiction, and narrative studies.
This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena.

Polvinen presents reflective attention on artifice as an integral part of engagement with fictional narratives, rather than as an external viewpoint that would obscure immersive experiences. The detailed analyses included are both of traditionally metafictional texts by John Barth, A.S. Byatt, Dave Eggers, and Ali Smith, as well as of speculative fictions by Ted Chiang, China Miéville, Christopher Priest, and Catherynne M. Valente. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific issue of fictional cognition: on metaphorical representation, spatiality, temporality, and fictionality. As a whole, the book argues that by combining a literary and theoretically complex view of artifice with the enactive paradigm of perception and imagination, practitioners of cognitive literary studies can further sharpen their own conceptual and terminological apparatus and continue to generate fruitful hermeneutic circulation around the study of the imagination in both the sciences and the humanities.

This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive approaches to literary studies, speculative fiction, metafiction, and narrative studies.
Über den Autor

Merja Polvinen is Senior Lecturer in English studies and Docent (Associate Professor) in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: An Enactive Approach to Self-Reflective Fiction
  2. The Metaphorical Seeing-As
  3. 2.1 'A Clean, Bright Paradox': A.S. Byatt's Self-Conscious Realism in Still Life

    2.2 Speculative Fiction, Self-Reflection and Literal Narratology in Catherynne M. Valente's 'Silently and Very Fast'

  4. The Artificial Spatiality of Literary Environments
  5. 3.1 Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds: China Miéville's The City & The City

    3.2 Making Space: Affordances and Literary Engagement in Ali Smith's There but for the

  6. Temporality and Embodied Knowledge
    1. The Speed of Thought in John Barth's 'On with the Story'
    2. Self-Reflective Knowledge and Narrative Emotions in Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life'
    1. Fictionality as Artifice
      1. Affect and Artifice in Dave Eggers's The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
      2. Double Vision and the Instrumental Value of Fiction: Christopher Priest's The Prestige
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032263748
ISBN-10: 1032263741
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Polvinen, Merja
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Merja Polvinen
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
Artikel-ID: 125159153
Über den Autor

Merja Polvinen is Senior Lecturer in English studies and Docent (Associate Professor) in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: An Enactive Approach to Self-Reflective Fiction
  2. The Metaphorical Seeing-As
  3. 2.1 'A Clean, Bright Paradox': A.S. Byatt's Self-Conscious Realism in Still Life

    2.2 Speculative Fiction, Self-Reflection and Literal Narratology in Catherynne M. Valente's 'Silently and Very Fast'

  4. The Artificial Spatiality of Literary Environments
  5. 3.1 Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds: China Miéville's The City & The City

    3.2 Making Space: Affordances and Literary Engagement in Ali Smith's There but for the

  6. Temporality and Embodied Knowledge
    1. The Speed of Thought in John Barth's 'On with the Story'
    2. Self-Reflective Knowledge and Narrative Emotions in Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life'
    1. Fictionality as Artifice
      1. Affect and Artifice in Dave Eggers's The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
      2. Double Vision and the Instrumental Value of Fiction: Christopher Priest's The Prestige
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032263748
ISBN-10: 1032263741
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Polvinen, Merja
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Merja Polvinen
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
Artikel-ID: 125159153
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