Russian Literature and Cognitive Science

Tom Dolack is senior professor of the Practice of Russian at Wheaton College.

• PrefaceIntroduction Tom DolackChapter 1: Pushkin's “The Stationmaster”: Morality Meets Sexual Selection David BetheaChapter 2: Flow and Selfhood in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: A Case Study of the Mowing Scene David S. DanaherChapter 3: Facial Imagery, Reader Visualization, and the Visual Ethics of War and Peace Sarah B. MohlerChapter 4: A Multilevel Cognitive Approach to Pushkin Tom DolackChapter 5: Staying Imperturbable in the Face of Fate: Alexander Pushkin’s Gothic Stories Conveying the Code of Honor in the Face of the Supernatural Ekaterina ChelpanovaChapter 6: (Un)Reading and the “Gappiness” of Context: Towards a New Cognitive Reception Theory Katherina B. KokinovaChapter 7: Re-Visioning Despair: The Medical Gaze in Sologub’s The Petty Demon Kelly Knickmeier CummingsChapter 8: Autism in Nabokov’s The Defense Brett CookeChapter 9: Provocation and Pre-Diction: Terrorist Realism as a Narrative Mode in the Russian Imperium’s Prose 1862-1914 (Particularly in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg, 1913) Michal MrugalskiChapter 10: Mass Shooters as Underground Men of the 21st Century Irina MeierChapter 11: Russian Cognitive Approaches for Studying Genres of Contemporary Electronic Communication: Interpreting “Sincere Conversations” in New Media Anna Novikova and Julia LernerChapter 12: Dream (Re)Interpretation: Metaphors and Story Schemas in Meaning Creation Anna A. LazarevaChapter 13: Intersections between Language, Social Norms, and Individual Cognition in Natalya Baranskaya’s A Week like Any Other Angelina RubinaChapter 14: Cognitive Aspects of Deixis and Semantic Poetics of Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky Denis AkhapkinAbout the Contributors

In Russian Literature and Cognitive Science, Tom Dolack marshals old hands and new faces to show the many ways the new sciences of the mind can illuminate from unexpected angles the incomparable treasury of Russian literature from Pushkin to the present.