This is the official group of the TC Cognitive and Affect Studies forum.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic “Cognitive” sessions at the MLA! (527, 645) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Don’t miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session “Sadness” (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while “Life-Writing and Cognition” (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.
Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Imagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more] -
Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.
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Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Our Aesthetic Contexts" (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The MLA Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Our Aesthetic Contexts” at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC. We invite papers on how the situational, relational, and mediated contexts in which audiences encounter the arts (including fiction, poetry, theater, film, visual art, music, and dan…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
With the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.
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Ellen Spolsky deposited An Embodied View of Misunderstanding in Macbeth in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
The article discusses the relationship among philosophical and cognitive theories of understanding intentionality, pointing to particular strengths and weaknesses which bear on their usefulness to literary studies. My claim is that their gaps and their complementarity can be seen with particular clarity when they are used to describe interpretive…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
This is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Previous studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
In her introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Lisa Zunshine, scholar in the field and its best historian, describes cognitive literary critics as working “not toward consilience with science but toward a richer engagement with a variety of theoretical paradigms in literary and cultural studies” (2015). Scholars from m…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months ago
a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Being Present to the Arts" (MLA 2021) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
The Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Being Present to the Arts” at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto. We invite papers that examine the experience (psychological, physical, social, affective) of attending to, being absorbed by, or participating in the creation of music, dance, poetry, painting,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Full collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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