Live Artefacts: Literature in a Cognitive Environment

by Terence Cave

Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and mobility of human cognition, its adaptive inventiveness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192858122
• ISBN13: 9780192858122
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"