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Author: Karin Kukkonen (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.536kg
ISBN: 9780190634766
ISBN 10: 0190634766
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 27 April 2017
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This collection provides a window into the brilliant mind of Robin Tolmach Lakoff, one of the most important linguists of our current era. The articles reprinted here, each revolutionary in its own right, are as bold and relevant now as they were at the time of their first publishing. These are elegant essays, crafted by a scholar and public intellectual who has transformed our understanding of semantic, pragmatic, and sociopolitical meaning. --Kira Hall, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Colorado This book sets out to rethink traditional poetics in a cognitive perspective. Karin Kukkonen's account of the way the Aristotelian rules were adjusted for the eighteenth-century novel reveals what is - and always was - at stake in problematic concepts such as verisimilitude and narrative logic. A state-of-the-art study which recalibrates both the history of the novel and the understanding of poetics as a cognitive discipline. --Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford In an unconventional reappraisal of neoclassical poetics, Kukkonen considers how literary theory from the early modern period prefigures contemporary cognitive approaches and stands in close conversation with the eighteenth-century novel: a groundbreaking perspective on literary history at the crossroad of science and humanities. --Francoise Lavocat, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
""The book radiates from a vigorous hypothesis, that of a kinship between eighteenth-century neoclassical poetics and present-day cognitive poetics. Karin Kukkonen, whose solid background in contemporary literary theory and textual criticism is indisputable, substantiates her persuasive argument with a wealth of case studies from eighteenth-century English and French novels. The bringing together of neoclassical poetics, the emergent novel and modern cognitive poetics proves to be a winning strategy for extending our knowledge of eighteenth century literature and culture.""--Rosamaria Loretelli, Università di Napoli Federico II, Vice-President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ""This book sets out to rethink traditional poetics in a cognitive perspective. Karin Kukkonen's account of the way the Aristotelian rules were adjusted for the eighteenth-century novel reveals what is - and always was - at stake in problematic concepts such as verisimilitude and narrative logic. A state-of-the-art study which recalibrates both the history of the novel and the understanding of poetics as a cognitive discipline.""--Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford ""In an unconventional reappraisal of neoclassical poetics, Kukkonen considers how literary theory from the early modern period prefigures contemporary cognitive approaches and stands in close conversation with the eighteenth-century novel: a groundbreaking perspective on literary history at the crossroad of science and humanities.""--Françoise Lavocat, Professor of Comparative Literature, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris ""This is a meticulously edited, generously documented, and profoundly erudite book...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."" --P.D. Collington, Niagara University, Choice ""Karin Kukkonen's important book proposes several innovative theses. It argues that European neoclassicist literary theory was an early incarnation of present-day cognitive poetics, that the rules governing a given literary genre during a definite historical period, in this case seventeenthand eighteenth-century neoclassicist poetics of drama, were equally applied to other genres, and that, consequently, the eighteenth-century English literary wave called ""the rise of the novel"" was deeply indebted to the neoclassicist views on literature ... To conclude, Kukkonen's book represents the promising debut of a very talented young scholar and will certainly enjoy the success it deserves."" -Thomas Pavel, Modern Philology ""The author terms her synthesis of neoclassical criticism and brain-body science a ""cognitive poetics"", but this is too modest; it is also a literary history, a theory of reception, and a demonstration of how heuristics such as situational logic, comeuppance clockworks, and Bayesian cognition can benefit literaty studies. Highlights include chapters on cheater detection in Richarson's Clarissa, cognitive estrangement in Utopian fiction, and free indirect perception in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. This is a meticulously edited, generously documented, and profoundly erudite book."" -- P.D. Collington, Niagara University, CHOICE
The book radiates from a vigorous hypothesis, that of a kinship between eighteenth-century neoclassical poetics and present-day cognitive poetics. Karin Kukkonen, whose solid background in contemporary literary theory and textual criticism is indisputable, substantiates her persuasive argument with a wealth of case studies from eighteenth-century English and French novels. The bringing together of neoclassical poetics, the emergent novel and modern cognitive poetics proves to be a winning strategy for extending our knowledge of eighteenth century literature and culture. * Rosamaria Loretelli, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Vice-President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies *
Author Information
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. She is a specialist in cognitive approaches to literature and narratology. She has published on comics and graphic novels (Contemporary Comics Storytelling, 2013), embodied and probabilistic cognitive approaches to literary narrative, as well as on the eighteenth-century novel. From 2010-2013, she was a Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford.
