Book contents
- Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects
- Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1A Theory of blibs
- 2What Sort of Concept Literature and Art Is Not
- 3Literature and Art as an Action
- 4Literature and Art as a Cognitive and Natural Object
- 5How to Solve the Ontological Puzzles
- 6Literature, Art and Relevance
- 7Ιnterdisciplinary Effects on the Psychology and Neuroscience of Creativity
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2025
Book contents
- Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects
- Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- Additional material
- Introduction
- 1A Theory of blibs
- 2What Sort of Concept Literature and Art Is Not
- 3Literature and Art as an Action
- 4Literature and Art as a Cognitive and Natural Object
- 5How to Solve the Ontological Puzzles
- 6Literature, Art and Relevance
- 7Ιnterdisciplinary Effects on the Psychology and Neuroscience of Creativity
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The introduction outlines the main issues to be discussed in following chapters and underlines the paradigm-changing implications of the book for current attempts to bring literary/ art studies closer to empirical and cognitive domains such as linguistics and the cognitive sciences. It presents the book as a concrete example of two-way interdisciplinarity and methodological merger between literary and art-theoretical discourse on the one hand and naturalised scientific enquiry on the other. Finally, it identifies those aspects of the Chomskian and relevance theory programmes that make them crucial intellectual precursors to the present book.
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- Literature and Art as Cognitive ObjectsFrom a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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