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Thinking with literature : Towards a Cognitive Criticism / Terence Cave.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 199 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780198749417 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 801.95 23 CAV
Contents:
1. Openings -- 2. Cognitive conversations -- 3. The balloon of the mind -- 4. Literary affordances -- 5. Literary imaginations -- 6. Cognitive figures -- 7. Cognitives mimesis -- 8. The posture of reading -- 9. Literary values in a cognitive perspective.
Summary: "To speak of "thinking with literature" is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with
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1. Openings -- 2. Cognitive conversations -- 3. The balloon of the mind -- 4. Literary affordances -- 5. Literary imaginations -- 6. Cognitive figures -- 7. Cognitives mimesis -- 8. The posture of reading -- 9. Literary values in a cognitive perspective.


"To speak of "thinking with literature" is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and indexes.

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