Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

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ISBN: 9780415942454 | 0415942454
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Copyright: 6/20/2003

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In the last two decades, fields from anthropology to zoology have been swept by "the cognitive revolution." In recent years, this revolution has begun to enter the study of literature and the arts as well.

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Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction. The Dustheap of History: Why Cognitive Science Now?	1	(6)
Chapter 1. "My Favorite Things": Thinking Jazz	7	(22)
Chapter 2. Is It Cognitive Science Yet? Some Basic Principles	29	(30)
Chapter 3. The Author: Maestros and Geniuses	59	(28)
Chapter 4. The Text (I): Where the Metaphors Are	87	(28)
Chapter 5. The Text (II): Narrative, or Getting the Story Straight	115	(25)
Chapter 6. The Reader: How Literature Makes Us Feel	140	(26)
Chapter 7. From Mind to Matter: Art, Empathy, and the Brain	166	(25)
Chapter 8. The Evolutionary Turn: Blindness and Insight in the Explanation of Art and Mind	191	(28)
Notes	219	(8)
Works Cited	227	(8)
Index	235

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