Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism

Synopsis

To 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. This Book Argues That What It Affords Above All Is A Way Of Thinking, Whether For Writer, Reader, Or Critic. Openings -- Cognitive Conversations -- The Balloon Of The Mind -- Literary Affordances -- Literary Imaginations -- Cognitive Figures -- Cognitives Mimesis -- The Posture Of Reading -- Literary Values In A Cognitive Perspective. Terence Cave. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 183-191) And Indexes.