Cognitive Spaces and Perspective in Literature

2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-75436-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature, Finnigan explores how these patterns exploit readers’ power to imagine themselves in different times and places and identifies the literary power of deviating from these patterns. While focusing on Victorian, Modernist and Postmodernist texts, Finnigan brings a new critical framework that can applied in other literary contexts through neuroscience and psychological theory. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finnigan, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Chapter 1.-Breaking the surface.-Spatial patterning and the Victorian gaze.-Chapter 2.-Terrible Materialities.- Beckett, Language and Vision.-Chapter 3.-Is it a hen or a river.-Episodic Memory and Narrative Production.-Chapter 4.-ChasingRabbits. -Gestalt, Perception and Salience. -Chapter 5.-Embodied Space and Language.- Harmony in Banville and Visual Epiphanies.

Über Autor(innen)

Liz Finnigan is Course Director for the English and History Undergraduate Program at Southern Regional College, Northern Ireland. Previously, she taught at Strathclyde University, UK, where she was also the convener of the Advanced Literary Linguistics Research, Editor of the at Mainz and General Editor of . Her research interests are: Literary Linguistics, Cognition, Neuropsychology, Visual Perception, Stylistics and Narrative Theory. However, she has also worked on Irish writing and postcolonial theory. She is currently researching the relationship of narratives to episodic memory.