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Smart, original, and thoroughly engrossing, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso's new collection is a major achievement. This volume shows that the modernist writers explored here offered a radical rethinking of the relationship between mind, language, and world. The Fictional Minds of Modernism adds a new and fascinating dimension to our understanding of the philosophical import of literary modernism. * John Gibson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Louisville, USA * Miguel-Alfonso's collection succeeds in its challenge to remain equally sensitive to fictional minds as both epistemological and aesthetic resources. Taking the empiricist impulse in late 19th century psychology as a prompt to rethink - and redirect - the 'inward turn' of Modernism, the collection makes an authoritative contribution to the field of cognitive literary studies and cognitive historicism. At the same time, like any good Modernist, it commits to introspection, reflecting, with each bold step forward, on the place of contemporary cognitive science in 21st-century literary studies. * David Ciccoricco, Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand *

Smart, original, and thoroughly engrossing, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso’s new collection is a major achievement. This volume shows that the modernist writers explored here offered a radical rethinking of the relationship between mind, language, and world. The Fictional Minds of Modernism adds a new and fascinating dimension to our understanding of the philosophical import of literary modernism. * John Gibson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Louisville, USA * Miguel-Alfonso's collection succeeds in its challenge to remain equally sensitive to fictional minds as both epistemological and aesthetic resources. Taking the empiricist impulse in late 19th century psychology as a prompt to rethink – and redirect – the 'inward turn' of Modernism, the collection makes an authoritative contribution to the field of cognitive literary studies and cognitive historicism. At the same time, like any good Modernist, it commits to introspection, reflecting, with each bold step forward, on the place of contemporary cognitive science in 21st-century literary studies. * David Ciccoricco, Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand * This collection contributes to world literature studies by analysing modernist works from disparate geographical and linguistic backgrounds, as well as to interdisciplinary research informed by linguistics, philosophy and brain science. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess human language and minds vis-a-vis external realities, giving rise – and thus life – to new perspectives on the nexus between mind and world. -- Pengfei Zhang, Zhejiang University, China * Forum for Modern Language Studies *

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Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of El Romanticismo americano y la idea de la literatura (American Romanticism and the Idea of Literature) (2018).

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