{"product_id":"thinking-with-literature-9780198824640","title":"Thinking with Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo speak of ''thinking with literature'' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with Literature argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic. Literature constitutes one of the prime instruments of cultural improvisation; it is the embodiment of a powerful, inventive, and ever-changing cognitive agency. As such, it invites a cognitive mode of criticism, one which asserts the priority of the individual literary work as a unique product of human cognition. In this book, discussions of topics, arguments, and hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the theory of communication are woven into the fab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerence Cave, in Thinking with Literature ... goes inside our minds to map out a new \"cognitive approach to literary studies\". * Hal Jensen, Summer Books selection 2016, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003ethe book offers many valuable insights about human cognition and embodiment * British Society of Literature and Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 1: Openings 2: Cognitive conversations 3: The balloon, the shed, and the bees 4: Literary affordances: culture as second nature 5: The balloon of the mind: literary imaginations 6: Cognitive figures 7: Cognitive mimesis: the cliff and the ballroom 8: The posture of reading: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim 9: Literary values in a cognitive perspective A virtual manifesto for cognitive literary studies","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083816431959,"sku":"9780198824640","price":22.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198824640.jpg?v=1762203914","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-with-literature-9780198824640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}