Culture and Cognition The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry
This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas-the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the dif...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[2019]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419765206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Science, Cognition, and Culture
- I. NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
- 1. Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures and the Nature of Meaning
- 2. Structures of Meaning: The Logic of Narrative and the Constitution of Literary Genres
- 3. Why Are There Old People? Narration, Natural History, and the Situation of Cognition
- II. CASES OF COGNITION
- 4. Special Cases: Freud, Einstein, and the Dream of Understanding
- 5. Psychoanalysis and Narration: Lacan, Greimas, and the Desire of Cognition
- 6. The Plain Sense of Things: Aging and the Rhetoric of Narration
- III. CULTURAL DISCOURSE
- 7. The Institution of Criticism: Pedagogy, Publishing, and Oppositional Criticism
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
