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Author:   Jean-François Vernay
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780367751944

ISBN 10:   0367751941
Pages:   122
Publication Date:   12 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Foreword by Paula Leverage Preface by Jean-François Vernay 1 Cognitive Australian Literary Studies and the Creation of New Heuristic Constellations Jean-François Vernay 2 Narrative Empathy in Contemporary Australian Multiperspectival Novels: Cognitive Readings of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Gail Jones’s Five Bells Lukas Klik 3 Contemplating Affects: The Mystery of Emotion in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend Victoria Reeve 4 Affective Narratology, Cultural Memory, and Aboriginal Culture in Kim Scott’s Taboo Francesca Di Blasio 5 Finding Voice: Cognition, Cate Kennedy’s ""Cold Snap"", and the Australian Bush Tradition Lisa Smithies 6 On Waiting upon: Speculations by an Australian Novelist on the Experience of Writing a Commissioned Novel Sue Woolfe 7 Performing a Neuro Lit Crit Analysis of Specky Magee in the Context of Obesity Bibliotherapy: Persuading Readers to Commit to Exercise Rocío Riestra-Camacho 8 Feeling the Land: Embodied Relations in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction Dorothee Klein"

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One of the fastest developing areas of science lies in discoveries about the human brain, about which we knew almost nothing only a few decades ago. Now the implications of that knowledge are spreading into other disciplines. The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature is the first edited volume to explore the implications of this study for the reading and writing of Australian literature. Bridging neuroscience and the humanities, this diverse collection of essays adds to our understanding of issues such as empathy, voice, narrative persuasion, and the relation between our brains and body when enjoying aesthetic experiences. It provides a new direction in Australian literary and cultural studies. Dennis Haskell, AM, The University of Western Australia. Bringing together cognitive literary studies and Australian literary studies in a sustained and detailed way, this collection skilfully draws on a wide range of recent empirical and theoretical work on cognition, neuroscience, emotion, and sociality to address central issues and themes in Australian literary studies, among them the bearing of settler and indigenous discourse, experience, and histories on one another, the challenges of reconfiguring national identity in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural directions, the place of the wilderness and interactions with the environment in imaginative, affective life and ideological constructs, and the positioning of contemporary fiction in relation to a colonizing past and a globalized, post-national future. Donald R. Wehrs, Hargis Professor of English Literature, Auburn University, USA

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Jean-François Vernay is the author of Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch (2007), A Brief Take on the Australian Novel (2016), The Seduction of Fiction (2016), and La séduction de la fiction (2019).

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