College Literature articles from January 2006

College Literature archives from January 2006

Introduction: morsels and modules: on embodying cognition in Shakespeare's plays (1).
January 1, 2006... Cognitive science became a visible presence in literary study a little over fifteen years ago, in part due to the publication of George Lakoff's and Mark Turner's path-breaking "field guide to poetic metaphor" (1989). As the importance of...

Simulation of substance and shadow: inner emotions and outer behavior in Shakespeare's psychology of character.
January 1, 2006... Introduction One may argue that Shakespeare thought of his plays as models of the world. In this paper I discuss these models as simulations that run on minds. The idea may seem problematic, however, since an important tenet of post-modern...

Narrative universals, heroic tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare's political ambivalence.
January 1, 2006... In The Mind and Its Stories (Hogan 2003b), I argue that three narrative patterns recur with remarkable frequency across cultures. Variations on these patterns account for as much two-thirds of the highly esteemed, prototypical plots in most,...

Moral physiology, ethical prototypes, and the denaturing of sense in Shakespearean tragedy.
January 1, 2006... It has long been noted that if, as Hegel argues, Greek tragedy concerns the conflict of competing goods, Shakespearean tragedy concerns a crisis of meaning epitomized in Macbeth's assertion that life is but a "tale / Told by an idiot, full of...

Emotion, perception and anagnorisis in the comedy of errors: a cognitive perspective (1).
January 1, 2006... The following discussion of Comedy of Errors draws on insights and models of analysis derived from the appraisal theory of emotion, the most dominant among cognitive theories of emotion. Continuities between early modern theories of passion and...

Topicality and conceptual blending: Titus Andronicus and the case of William Hacket.
January 1, 2006... In this essay, which combines historicism and cognitive criticism, I identify a previously unnoticed topical allusion in Titus Andronicus; the allusion then serves as my illustrative case-study in a cognitive account of topicality. As a...

"The dark backward and abysm of time": the Tempest and memory.
January 1, 2006... In his 1601 The Passions of the Minde, Thomas Wright sets down "one hundred questions about the soule and the bodie" (237). Numbers 68 and 69, among others, concern the faculty of memory: How can possibly be conserued, without confusion,...

Delivery style and listener response in the rhythmical performance of Shakespeare's sonnets.
January 1, 2006... The Rhythmical Performance of Poetry This paper offers further empirical evidence in favor of my conception of poetic rhythm and performance as presented in my book Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance--An Empirical Study in Cognitive...

Race, cognition, and emotion: Shakespeare on film.
January 1, 2006... New Wrappings Like poor old King Lear, England's Royal Shakespeare Company is "buffeted, homeless and feeling un-loved," Alan Riding declares in The New York Times (Riding 2003, B1). With its London stage gone, its Stratford attendance at...

Cognitive theory in film studies: three recent books.(Engaging the Moving Image)(Film Structure and the Emotion System)(Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Carroll, Noel. 2003. Engaging the Moving Image. New Haven: Yale University Press. $45.00 hc. 448 pp. Smith, Greg M. 2003. Film Structure and the Emotion System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $65.00 hc. 230 pp. Persson, Per....

The view of where we've been and where we'd like to go.(Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction)(Cognitive Poetics in Practice)(The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Stockwell, Peter. 2002. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge. $115.00 hc. $33.95 sc. 176 pp. Gavins, Joanna, and Gerald Steen, eds. 2003. Cognitive Poetics in Practice. London and New York: Routledge. $125.00...

Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Paster, Gail Kern, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, eds. 2002. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $47.96 hc. $19.96 sc. 392 pp. Reading the...

Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2003. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists. London and New York: Routledge. $85.00 hc. $19.95 sc. 244 pp. The cognitive revolution that has affected so many areas of contemporary thought...

The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2003. The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. New York: Cambridge University Press. $65.00 hc. 302 pp. In spite of the hustle-bustle of our everyday lives, we still take pause to read novels,...

Books received: July 15, 2005 to October 15, 2005.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2006... Aldama, Frederick Luis. 2005. Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity. Austin: University of Texas Press. $50.00 hc. $19.95 sc. vii + 176 pp. Ashley, Mike. 2005. Transformations: The Story of the...