The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture - 9781137593283

This book identifies the æcognitive humanitiesÆ with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representationùa Cartesian inner theatreùthan as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but engaging much more extensively with æ4EÆ cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind through culture.

• | Author: Peter Garratt
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137593288
• | ISBN-13: 9781137593283