Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism
Author:   Terence Cave (Emeritus Professor of French Literature, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, St John's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198824640


Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 May 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Terence Cave (Emeritus Professor of French Literature, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, St John's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780198824640


ISBN 10:   0198824645
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: Openings 2: Cognitive conversations 3: The balloon, the shed, and the bees 4: Literary affordances: culture as second nature 5: The balloon of the mind: literary imaginations 6: Cognitive figures 7: Cognitive mimesis: the cliff and the ballroom 8: The posture of reading: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim 9: Literary values in a cognitive perspective A virtual manifesto for cognitive literary studies

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Terence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new cognitive approach to literary studies . * Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement * the book offers many valuable insights about human cognition and embodiment * British Society of Literature and Science *


Terence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new ""cognitive approach to literary studies"". * Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement * the book offers many valuable insights about human cognition and embodiment * British Society of Literature and Science *


the book offers many valuable insights about human cognition and embodiment * British Society of Literature and Science * Terence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new cognitive approach to literary studies . * Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement *


Author Information

Terence Cave CBE FBA is a specialist in early modern French literature, thought, and culture. His major publications in this area include The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (1979), Pré-histoires: textes troublés au seuil de la modernité (1999), Pré-histoires II: langues étrangères et troubles économiques au XVIe siècle (2001), and How to Read Montaigne (2007). His wider interest in European literature and the history of poetics is represented by Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (2011), and (with Sarah Kay and Malcolm Bowie) A Short History of French Literature (2003). In 2009 he was awarded the Balzan Foundation Prize for 'Literature since 1500', and he is currently director of the Balzan Interdisciplinary Seminar 'Literature as an Object of Knowledge', based at the St John's College Research Centre.

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