Cognitive literary studies : current themes and new directions

* Foreword* F. Elizabeth Hart * Introduction * Isabel Jaen and Julien J. Simon * Section I: Cognitive Literary Studies Today *1. An Overview of Recent Developments in Cognitive Literary Studies Isabel Jaen and Julien J. Simon * Section II: The Cognitive Sciences and Literary Theory in Dialogue*2. Why Literature Is Necessary, and Not Just Nice, Richard J. Gerrig*3. Theory of Mind in Reconciling the Split Object of Narrative Comprehension, Joseph A. Murphy * Section III: Neurological Approaches to Literature *4. Don Quixote and the Neuroscience of Metafiction, Norman N. Holland* 5. The Mourning Brain: Attachment, Anticipation, and Hamlet's Unmanly Grief, Patrick Colm Hogan*6. The Literary Neuroscience of Kafka's Hypnagogic Hallucinations: How Literature Informs the Neuroscientific Study of Self and Its Disorders, Aaron L. Mishara* Section IV: Language, Literature, and Mind Processes*7. Blending and Beyond: Form and Feeling in Poetic Iconicity, Margaret H. Freeman*8. "A sermon in the midst of a smutty tale": Blending in Genres of Speech, Writing, and Literature, Michael Sinding*9. Counting in Metrical Verse, Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle*10. Fictive Motion and Perspectival Construal in the Lyric, Claiborne Rice* Section V: Literature and Human Development*11. Education by Poetry: Hartley's Theory of Mind as a Context for Understanding Early Romantic Poetic Strategies, Brad Sullivan*12. Leafy Houses and Acorn Kisses: J. M. Barrie's Neverland Playground, Glenda Sacks* Postscript: The Psychology of Fiction: Present and Future, Keith Oatley, Raymond A. Mar, and Maja Djikic * Contributors* Index