The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities

Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-75194-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Literature

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field.

It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in a single volume.

It takes Australian fiction on the leading edge by paving the way for a new direction in Australian literary criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vernay, Jean-François

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Paula Leverage

Preface by Jean-François Vernay

1 Cognitive Australian Literary Studies and the Creation of New Heuristic Constellations

Jean-François Vernay

2 Narrative Empathy in Contemporary Australian Multiperspectival Novels: Cognitive Readings of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Gail Jones’s Five Bells

Lukas Klik

3 Contemplating Affects: The Mystery of Emotion in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend

Victoria Reeve

4 Affective Narratology, Cultural Memory, and Aboriginal Culture in Kim Scott’s Taboo

Francesca Di Blasio

5 Finding Voice: Cognition, Cate Kennedy’s "Cold Snap", and the Australian Bush Tradition

Lisa Smithies

6 On Waiting upon: Speculations by an Australian Novelist on the Experience of Writing a Commissioned Novel

Sue Woolfe

7 Performing a Neuro Lit Crit Analysis of Specky Magee in the Context of Obesity Bibliotherapy: Persuading Readers to Commit to Exercise

Rocío Riestra-Camacho

8 Feeling the Land: Embodied Relations in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction

Dorothee Klein

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-François Vernay is the author of Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch (2007), A Brief Take on the Australian Novel (2016), The Seduction of Fiction (2016), and La séduction de la fiction (2019).