Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies

Lisa Zunshine is the Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and author of Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel and Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Is Cognitive Cultural Studies?Part I: Literary UniversalsChapter 1. Literary UniversalsPart II: Cognitive HistoricismChapter 2. Facial Expression Theory from Romanticism to the PresentChapter 3. making "Quite Anew": Brain Modularity and CreativityChapter 4. Analogy, Metaphor, and the New Science: Cognitice Science and Early Modern EpistemologyChapter 5. Lying Bodies of the Enlightenment: Theory of Mind and Cltural HistoricismChapter 6. Toward a Cognitive Cultural HegemonyPart III: Cognitive NarratologyChapter 7. Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive RevolutionChapter 8. Storyworlds and GroupsChapter 9. Theory of Mind and Experimental representationsChapter 10. Machiavellian NarrativesPart IV: Cognitive Approaches in Dialogue with Other Approaches (Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, Aesthetics, Poststructuralism)Chapter 11. On Bring Moved: Cognition and Emotion in Literature and FilmChapter 12. Cognitive Ecocriticism: Human Wayfinding, Sociality, and Literary InterpretationChapter 13. Multisensory ImageryChapter 14. Darwin and Derrida: Cognitive Literary Theory as a Species or Post-structuralismNotesWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex

An interesting exploration of the relationship between human cognition and cultural criticism that can enrich scholars in both cultural studies and cognitive psychology. -- William A. Adams Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books 2011 This book decisively marks the entrance of cognitive science into the mainstream literary and cultural studies, offering the reader a daunting panorama of conceptual interbreeding. -- Aristie Trendel Cercles 2011 This is the cutting edge of literary scholarship... Presents a rich array of innovative approaches to textual analysis for the researcher wishing to explore the 'cognitive revolution'. -- Carol Hoggart Cognitive Cultural Studies Review 2011