Cognitive Spaces and Perspective in Literature

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature, Finnigan explores how these patterns exploit readers' power to imagine themselves in different times and places and identifies the literary power of deviating from these patterns. While focusing on Victorian, Modernist and Postmodernist texts, Finnigan brings a new critical framework that can applied in other literary contexts through neuroscience and psychological theory. 

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Liz Finnigan
is Course Director for the English and History Undergraduate Program at Southern Regional College, Northern Ireland. Previously, she taught at Strathclyde University, UK, where she was also the convener of the Advanced Literary Linguistics Research, Editor of the
International Journal of Literary Linguistics: Cognitive Edition
at Mainz and General Editor of
Ecloga
. Her research interests are: Literary Linguistics, Cognition, Neuropsychology, Visual Perception, Stylistics and Narrative Theory. However, she has also worked on Irish writing and postcolonial theory. She is currently researching the relationship of narratives to episodic memory.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Liz Finnigan
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2024
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen
• EAN: 9783031754364
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3175436-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 178
• Illustration: XIII, 178 p.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 14.8 x 1.4 x 21 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 345 g
• Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Themen: Europa, Kognitive Psychologie, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Neuroscience, Cognition, Psycholinguistics, European Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, visual perception, Victorian Literature, Gestalt Psychology, Self-projection, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Spatial Patterning, Episodic Future Thinking, James J. Gibson, John Branville, Lin Chen, Neuro-aesthetics, Visual Epiphany, Episodic Memory