Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies

<p><em>The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies </em>considers via a variety of methodologies and combinations of interdisciplinary approaches how the architecture that enables human cognitive processing interacts with cultural and historical contexts. Organized into five parts (Narrative History Imagination; Emotions and Empathy; The New Unconscious; Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature; and Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience) the volume uses case studies from a wide range of historical periods (from the fourth century BCE to the twenty-first century) and national literary traditions (including South Asian postcolonial anglophone and francophone Chinese Japanese English Iranian Russian Italian French German and Spanish).</p>