Kafka's Cognitive Realism

by Emily T. Troscianko

This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka's poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of cognitive realism can be a critically productive framework for exploring how textual evocations of cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities, and how this may affect real readers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415640679
• ISBN13: 9780415640671
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"