Bibliography-in-Progress for Cognitive Literary, Film, Theater, and Media Studies

May 2018

by Lisa Zunshine

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2013

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Literature 59.2 (2007): 97–118.

Aldama, Frederick Luis. Toward a Theory of Narrative Acts. University of Texas Press,

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Anderson, Miranda. The Renaissance Extended Mind. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Armstrong, Paul B. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading

and Art. Johns Hopkins UP, 2014

Austin, Michael. Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature.

University of Nebraska Press, 2011

Banks, Kathryn and Timothy Chesters. Kinesis Intelligence: Rethinking Movement in

Renaissance Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming

Berlina, Alexandra. “To Give Back the Sensation of Life: Shklovsky’s Ostranenie,

Cognitive Studies and Psychology.” Journal of Literary Studies 11.2 (2017), in

press

Bolens, Guillemette. The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary

Narrative. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

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Blair, Rhonda. The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Routledge, 2007

Blair, Rhonda and Amy Cook, eds., Theatre, Performance and Cognition. Bloomsbury,

2016

Bordwell, David. Poetics of Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2008

Bortolussi, Marisa and Peter Dixon. Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical

Study of Literary Response. Cambridge University Press, 2003

Bracher, Mark. Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and

Schema Criticism. University of Texas Press, 2014

Bruun Vaage, Margrethe. The Antihero in American Television. Routledge, 2016

Caracciolo, Marco. Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in

Readers’ Engagement with Characters. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,

2016

Caracciolo, Marco and Russell T. Hurlburt. Foreword by Eric Schwitzgebel. A Passion

for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science.

Columbus: The Ohio University Press, 2016

Carroll, Noël. The Philosophy of Motion Pictures. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Cave, Terence. Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism. Oxford, UK:

Oxford University Press, 2016

Cook, Amy. Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and

Performance through Cognitive Science. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Crane, Mary Thomas. Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory. Princeton

University Press, 2001

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-----. “Surface, Depth, and the Spatial Imaginary: A Cognitive Reading of The Political

Unconscious.” Representations (Fall 2009): 76–97

Csábi, Szilvia, ed. Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations. Oxford University Press,

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Dissanayake, Ellen. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. University of Washington

Press, 2012

-----. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why. University of Washington

Press, 1995

Djikic, Maja., Keith Oatley, & Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. “Reading Other Minds: Effects

of Literature on Empathy. “Scientific Study of Literature 3 (2013): 28–47.

Easterlin, Nancy. A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation. Johns

Hopkins University Press, 2012

Emmott, Catherine, Anthony J. Sanford, & Eugene J. Dawydiak. Stylistics Meet

Cognitive science: Studying Style in Fiction and Readers’ Attention from an

Interdisciplinary Perspective. Style 41 (2007): 204–224.

Engh, Line Cecilie, Stefka G. Eriksen, and Francis F. Steen, eds., "Rewiring Romans:

Medieval Liturgies as Tools for Transformation," special issue of ACTA (the

Norwegian Institute in Rome’s Series Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam

pertinentia), forthcoming

Esrock, Ellen J.. The Reader’s Eye: Visual Imaging as Reader Response. Johns Hopkins

University Press, 1994

Falletti Clelia, Gabriele Sofia, and Victor Jacono, eds., Theatre and Cognitive

Neuroscience. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017

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Flesch, William. Comeuppance: Altruistic Punishment, Costly Signaling and other

Biological Components of Fiction. Harvard U.P., 2008

Fletcher, Angus. Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics

of Natural Selection. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Fludernik, Monika. Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology. Routledge, 2010

Fong, K., Mullin, J. B., Mullin, & Mar, R. A. “What You Read Matters: The Role of

Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity.” Psychology of Aesthetics,

Creativity, and the Arts 7. 4 (2013): 370–376

Gavaler, Chris and Dan Johnson. The Genre Effect: A Science Fiction (Vs. Realism)

Manipulation Decreases Inference Effort, Reading Comprehension, and

Perceptions of Literary Merit.” Scientific Study of Literature 7.1 (2017): 79–108

Gavins, Joanna. Text World Theory: An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Gavins, Joanna and Gerald Steen. Cognitive Poetics in Practice. Routledge, 2003

Goldstein, Thalia R. and Ellen Winner. “Enhancing Empathy and Theory of Mind.”

Journal of Cognition and Development 13.1 (2012): 19-37

Grosz, Elizabeth. Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power. Duke University Press, 2005

Hart, F. Elizabeth. “The Epistemology of Cognitive Literary Studies.” Philosophy and

Literature 25 (2001): 314-34

Hakemulder, Frank, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint, and Miruna M.

Doicaru, eds., Narrative Absorption. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017

Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell, Wenjuan Yuan, eds., Cognitive

Grammar in Literature. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

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Herman, David. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. University of

Nebraska Press, 2002

-----, ed. Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Publications of the Center for the

Study of the Language and Information (Stanford), 2003

Hogan, Patrick Colm. The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human

Emotion, Cambridge University Press, 2003

-----. Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Neuroscience, and Identity. Ohio State

University Press, 2009

-----. Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories. University of Nebraska

Press, 2011

-----. Sexual Identities. Oxford University Press, 2018

Jaén, Isabel and Julien Jacques Simon, eds. Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes

and New Directions. University of Texas Press, 2012

-----, eds., Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Oxford University

Press, 2017

Keen, Suzanne. Empathy and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2007

----. Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination. Ohio

State University Press, 2014

Kidd, David Comer and Emanuele Castano. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory

of Mind.” Science 342.6156 (18 Oct 2013): 377-380

-----. “Reading Literary Fiction Affects Theory of Mind: Three Pre-registered

Replications and Extensions of Kidd and Castano (2013).” Social Psychological

and Personality Science June 20, 2018.

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Kukkonen, Karin. A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel. New

York: Oxford University Press, 2017

-----. “Bayesian Narrative: Probability, Plot and the Shape of the Fictional World.”

Anglia: Journal of English Philology 132.4 (2014): 720-39.

-----. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found its Feet:

Oxford University Press, 2019

Lau, Beth. Jane Austen and the Sciences of Mind. Routledge, 2017

Lee, Haiyan. “Chinese Feelings: Notes on a Ritual Theory of Emotion,” The Wenshan

Review of Literature and Culture 9.2 (June 2016): 1-37

-----. The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination. Stanford University Press, 2014.

----. “Two Wongs Can Make It White”: Charlie Chan and the Orientalist Exception.”

Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal. 1. 1. 2 (December 30,

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-----. “’Measuring the Stomach of a Gentleman with the Heart-Mind of a Pipsqueak”: On

the Ubiquity and Utility of Theory of Mind in Literature, Mostly.” Poetics Today,

forthcoming.

Lee, Sung-Ae. “Fairy-Tale Scripts and Intercultural Conceptual Blending in Modern

Korean Film and Television Drama.” Chapter 14 in Grimms' Tales Around the

Globe: The Dynamics of Their International Reception, eds. Vanessa Joosen and

Gillian Lathey. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014.

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Leverage, Paula, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert, and Jennifer Marston William

(eds.), Theory of Mind and Literature. Purdue University Press, 2010

Lissa, Caspar J. van, Marco Caracciolo, Thom van Duuren, Bram van Leuveren,

“Difficult Empathy. The Effect of Narrative Perspective on Readers’ Engagement

with a First-Person Narrator.” Diegesis 5.1 (2016). https://www.diegesis.uni-

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Lutterbie, John. Toward a General Theory of Acting: Cognitive Science and

Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Lyne, Raphael. “Shakespeare, Perception and Theory of Mind.” Paragraph 37 (2014):

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-----. Shakespeare, Rhetoric, and Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

MacCarthy, Ita and Kirsti Sellevold. Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and

Illusions in Early Modern Culture. Routledge, 2018

Mar, Raymond A., Keith Oatley, Jacob Hirsh, Jennifer dela Paz, Jordan B.

Peterson. “Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to Fiction versus Non-

fiction, Divergent Associations with Social Ability, and the Simulation of

Fictional Social Worlds.” Journal of Research in Personality 40 (2006):

694–712

McConachie, Bruce. Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the

Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

----. Theatre and Mind. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

McConachie, Bruce and F. Elizabeth Hart, eds., Performance and Cognition: Theatre

Studies and the Cognitive Turn. Routledge, 2007

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Miall, David S. Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies. Peter Lang

International Academic Publishers, 2006

Mikkonen, Jukka. The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic;

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Mossner, Alexa Weik von. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental

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Morgan Ben, Ellen Spolsky, and Sowon Park, eds., “Situated Cognition”: special issue of

Poetics Today 38.2 (2017)

Mumper, Micah L. and Richard J. Gerrig. ”How Does Leisure Reading Affect

Social Cognitive Abilities?” Poetics Today, special issue edited by Nancy

Easterlin; forthcoming

Nannicelli, Ted and Paul Taberham, eds., Cognitive Media Theory. Routledge, 2014

Otis, Laura. Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists.

Oxford University Press, 2016

----. Banned Emotions. Oxford University Press, 2019

Panero, Maria Eugenia, Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Black, Jessica, Goldstein, Thalia R.,

Barnes, Jennifer L., Brownell, Hiram, Winner, Ellen. “Does Reading a Single

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Popova, Yanna B. Stories, Meaning, and Experience. Routledge, 2015

Palmer, Alan. Fictional Minds. University of Nebraska Press, 2004

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Persson, Per. Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery.

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Patricia Pisters, The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Filmphilosophy of Digital Screen

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Phillips, Natalie M. Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature.

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Plantinga, Carl. Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience.

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Rokotnitz, Naomi. Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in

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Savarese, Ralph James and Lisa Zunshine. “The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What

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