Physical Description
xiii, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the prospects of literary cognitivism / John Gibson
Learning from literature / Peter Lamarque
Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge / Noël Carroll
The laboratory of the mind / Catherine Z. Elgin
"How could you?" : deeper understanding through fiction / Susan L. Feagin
Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction / Bernard Harrison
The return of the repressed : caring about literature and its themes / Luca Pocci
Lewis Carroll : fugitive from reality? / A.D. Nuttall
Philosophy as/and/of literature / Arthur C. Danto
The ends of narrative / Richard Eldridge
Narrative catharsis / Garry L. Hagberg
Postmodern narratives of the past : Simon Schama / Lubomír Doležel
En abyme : internal models and cognitive mapping / Brian McHale
Traveling stories : knowledge, activism, and the humanities / Linda Hutcheon
Poetry and cognition / Eileen John
Why read literature? The cognitive function of form / Wolfgang Huemer
"The way light at the edge of a beach in autumn is learned" : literature as learning / Frank B. Farrell
Wonder in The winter's tale : a cautionary account of epistemic criticism / Charles Altieri
Legends and myths / Kendall L. Walton
Literature and make-believe / Joseph Margolis
Art and the view from nowhere / Alex Burri
Culture : a recursive process / Wolfgang Iser.
Other Authors/Editors
Gibson, John,
Huemer, Wolfgang,
Pocci, Luca.
ISBN
9780415875530
0415875536
9780415701914
0415701910
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
