Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature

<p>This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high- profile writers, literary hoaxes and controversies, book culture, and LGBTIQA+ authors, to name a few. It eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in the first single-author volume of its kind. It takes Australian Literary Studies into the age of neuroawareness and provides new pathways in contemporary criticism.</p> <p>Foreword by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth</p><p>INTRODUCTION: GOING THE EXTRA SCHOLARLY MILE</p><p>PART I: COGNITION AND LITERARY CULTURE</p><p>1 Up for a Cha(lle)nge? A Case for Cognitive Australian Literary Studies</p><p>2 Do Judge a Book by Its Cover!<b> </b>Attraction and Attachment in Markus Zusak’s <i>The Book Thief</i></p><p>PART II: COGNITION AND THE MIND</p><p>3 Gazing Inward and Outward: (Trans)Formation in C.J.Koch’s Bildungsroman Protagonist and Readers </p><p>4 Australian High-Functioning ASD Fiction in the Age of Neurodiversity: Graeme Simsion’s Rosie Trilogy </p><p>PART III: COGNITION AND THE BODY</p><p>5 The Erotics of Writing and Reading Australian Novels: Linda Jaivin, Frank Moorhouse and John Purcell’s Art of Dealing with Dirt</p><p>6 Brains in Pain and Coping Bodies: Trauma, Scars, Wounds, and the Mind-Body Relationship in Western Australia Aboriginal Literature</p><p>PART IV: COGNITION AND EMOTIONS</p><p>7 Angry Gay Men: Rage, Race and Reward in Contemporary Australian Advocacy Fiction</p><p>8 No Time for Outrage? The Demidenko Affair: Literary Representations, Criticism and Moral Emotions in <i>The Hand That Signed the Paper</i> </p>