Primary Reading: Ovid, Heroides and Woolf, Orlando. These texts are available from Akademika. Please read them in preparation for the course, we will revisit them throughout to illustrate theoretical points.
Secondary Reading. These texts will be available through Fronter/Canvas.
Abbott, Porter. 2016. Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable. Columbus: OSU Press. (excerpt)
Armstrong, Paul. 2013. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP: (excerpt)
Baumbach, Sibylle. 2015. Literature and Fascination. London Palgrave Macmillan. (excerpt)
Bernini, Marco. 2014. “Supersizing Narrative Theory: On Intention, Material Agency and Extended Mind-Workers” Style 48.3: 349-366.
Bortolussi, Marisa and Peter Dixon. 2003. Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (excerpt)
Caracciolo, Marco. 2011. “The Reader’s Virtual Body: Narrative Space and its Reconstruction” Storyworlds 2: 117-138.
Carroll, Joseph. 2008. “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study” Style 42.2-3: 103-134.
Cave, Terence. 2017. “Situated Cognitive: The Literary Archive” Poetics Today 38.2: 235-253.
Clark, Andy. 2014. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Oxford: OUP (excerpt).
Collini, Stefan. 2013. “Introduction” The Two Cultures. New York: Cambridge University Press (excerpt)
Easterlin, Nancy. 2013. “The Functions of Literature and the Evolution of the Extended Mind” New Literary History 44.4: 661-682.
Flesch, William. 2015. “Reading and Bargaining” in: Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. Oxford: OUP.
Fludernik, Monika. 1996. Toward a ‘Natural’ Narratology. London: Routledge. (excerpt)
Gould, Steven Jay. 2011. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities. Cambridge: Harvard UP: (excerpt)
Herman, David. 2013. Storytelling and the Sciences of the Mind. Cambridge: MIT Press. (excerpt)
Kidd, David Comer and Emmanuele Castano. 2013. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind” Science 342: 377-380.
Kramnick, Jonathan. 2011. “Against Literary Darwinism” Critical Inquiry 37.2: 315-347.
Kukkonen, Karin. ms. “The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics” In: Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau and Michael Wheeler (eds.) The History of Distributed Cognition 3: Enlightenment and Romanticism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Landy, Joshua. 2012. “Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities” Poetics Today 33.2: 169-216.
Malabou, Catherine. 2016. “What is Neuro-Literature?” Substance 45.2: 78-87.
Malabou, Catherine. 2008. What Should We Do With Our Brain? New York: Fordham University Press. (excerpt)
Palmer, Alan. 2011. “Social Minds in Fiction and Criticism” Style 45.2: 196-240.
Peer, Willy van. 1990. “The Measurement of Metre: Its Affective and Cognitive Functions” Poetics 19: 259-275.
Polvinen, Merja. 2016. “Cognitive Science and the Double Vision of Fiction” in Troscianko and Burke, eds. Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press. 135-150.
Ryan, Marie-Laure. 2015. Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. (excerpt)
Spolsky, Ellen. 2002. “Darwin and Derrida: Cognitive Literary Theory as a Species of Poststructuralism” Poetics Today 23.1: 43-62.
Stockwell, Peter. 2009. Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (excerpt).
Tribble, Evelyn. 2005. “Distributing Cognition in the Globe” Shakespeare Quarterly 56.2: 135-155.
Troscianko, Emily. 2014. Kafka’s Cognitive Realism. New York: Routledge (excerpt).
Turner, Mark. 1998. The Literary Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press (excerpt)
Zunshine, Lisa. 2003. “Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness” Narrative 11.3: 270-191.