Cognitive Literary Science

Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University). He is the author of Literary Reading Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (2011). He has published numerous chapters and articles on the topic of cognitive literary science. His areas of interest also include classical rhetoric, stylistics, and pragmatics. Emily T. Troscianko is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, and in 2014-15 was a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, collaborating with Beat, the leading UK eating disorders charity. The book from her doctoral thesis, Kafka's cognitive realism, came out with Routledge in 2014, and she is now working at the intersection of the cognitive and medical humanities, while co-authoring, with Susan Blackmore, the third edition of the psychology textbook Consciousness: An Introduction.

Introduction: A Window on to the Landscape of Cognitive Literary Science
Emily T. Troscianko and Michael Burke

SECTION I: LITERATURE THROUGH A COGNITIVE LENS

Chapter 1: Scientific Concepts in Literary Studies: Towards Criteria for the Meeting of Literature and Cognitive Science
Marcus Hartner

Chapter 2: Towards a 'Natural' Bond of Cognitive and Affective Narratology
Caroline Pirlet and Andreas Wirag

Chapter 3: 'Annihilation of Self': The Cognitive Challenge of the Sublime
David Miall

Chapter 4: The Space between Your Ears: Construal Level Theory, Cognitive Science, and Science Fiction
James Carney

Chapter 5: Patterns of Thought: Narrative and Verse
Brian Boyd

SECTION II: COGNITION THROUGH A LITERARY LENS

Chapter 6: Simulation and the Structure of Emotional Memory: Learning from Arthur Miller's After the Fall.
Patrick Colm Hogan

Chapter 7: Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction
Merja Polvinen

Chapter 8: Fantastic Cognition
Karin Kukkonen

Chapter 9: Feedback in Reading and Disordered Eating
Emily T. Troscianko

Chapter 10: Animal Minds across Discourse Domains
David Herman

SECTION III: LITERATURE AND COGNITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Chapter 11: Embodied Dynamics in Literary Experience
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Chapter 12: How Readers' Lives Affect Narrative Experiences
Richard J. Gerrig and Micah L. Mumper

Chapter 13: On Truth and Fiction
Keith Oatley

Chapter 14: Under Pressure: Norms, Rules, and Coercion in Linguistic Analyses and Literary Readings
Alexander Bergs

Chapter 15: Affective and Aesthetic Processes in Literary Reading: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective
Arthur M. Jacobs