Russian Literature and Cognitive Science

Russian Literature and Cognitive Science applies the newest insights from cognitive psychology to the study of Russian literature. Chapters focus on writers and cultural figures from the Golden to the Internet Age including: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sologub, Bely, Akhmatova, Nabokov, Baranskaya, and contemporary online discourse. The authors draw on a wide array of cognitively-informed fields within psychology and related disciplines and approaches such as social psychology, visual processing, conceptual blending, cognitive narratology, the study of autism, cognitive approaches to creativity, the medical humanities, reader reception theory, cognitive anthropology, psychopathology, psychoanalysis, Theory of Mind, visual processing, embodied cognition, and predictive processing. This volume demonstrates how useful a tool cognitive science is for the analysis of literary texts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666941697
• ISBN13: 9781666941692
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"