Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-316-51708-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

What makes literature and art the distinct kinds of entities they are? Previous attempts to prove that artworks and literary texts are formally and structurally distinguishable from other objects have been misinterpreted to mean that any distinction between art and non-art must be largely sociological. This book takes a radically new approach to this long-standing question. Shifting the focus from the artwork itself to art as a case of human agency, it sets out a groundbreaking theory of literature and art as a single cognitive and natural entity. It argues that literature and art is neither sociologically determined nor a body of artefacts, but a unique type of action enabled by art-specific processes in the mind-internal and body-internal reality of human agents. With wide implications for existing debates, this book is essential reading for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and the cognitive sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolaiti, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Kolaiti, Patricia
Patricia Kolaiti is a lecturer at New York College, Athens. From 2018 to 2020, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, funded by the European Commission, leading the CogLit Project at the University of Brighton. In 2021, she was endorsed as 'Global Talent – Emerging Leader' by the British Academy. She is also a cutting-edge published poet.