Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities - Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research Australian Literature

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field.

Sommario

Foreword by Paula Leverage
Preface by Jean-François Vernay
1 Cognitive Australian Literary Studies and the Creation of New Heuristic Constellations
Jean-François Vernay
2 Narrative Empathy in Contemporary Australian Multiperspectival Novels: Cognitive Readings of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Gail Jones’s Five Bells
Lukas Klik
3 Contemplating Affects: The Mystery of Emotion in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend
Victoria Reeve
4 Affective Narratology, Cultural Memory, and Aboriginal Culture in Kim Scott’s Taboo
Francesca Di Blasio
5 Finding Voice: Cognition, Cate Kennedy’s "Cold Snap", and the Australian Bush Tradition
Lisa Smithies
6 On Waiting upon: Speculations by an Australian Novelist on the Experience of Writing a Commissioned Novel
Sue Woolfe
7 Performing a Neuro Lit Crit Analysis of Specky Magee in the Context of Obesity Bibliotherapy: Persuading Readers to Commit to Exercise
Rocío Riestra-Camacho
8 Feeling the Land: Embodied Relations in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction
Dorothee Klein

Info autore

Jean-François Vernay is the author of Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch (2007), A Brief Take on the Australian Novel (2016), The Seduction of Fiction (2016), and La séduction de la fiction (2019).

Riassunto

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jean-Francois Vernay
• Con la collaborazione di: Jean-François Vernay (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367775353
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77535-3
• Pagine: 122
• Serie: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature