Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects
From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 18 September 2025
- ISBN 9781316517086
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 235x160x18 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 732
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Short description:
Bringing together ideas from linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science, this book sets out a revolutionary theory of literature and art.
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What makes literature and art the distinct kinds of entities they are? Previous attempts to prove that artworks and literary texts are formally and structurally distinguishable from other objects have been misinterpreted to mean that any distinction between art and non-art must be largely sociological. This book takes a radically new approach to this long-standing question. Shifting the focus from the artwork itself to art as a case of human agency, it sets out a groundbreaking theory of literature and art as a single cognitive and natural entity. It argues that literature and art is neither sociologically determined nor a body of artefacts, but a unique type of action enabled by art-specific processes in the mind-internal and body-internal reality of human agents. With wide implications for existing debates, this book is essential reading for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and the cognitive sciences.
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Introduction; 1. A theory of blibs; 2. What sort of concept literature and art is not; 3. Literature and art as an action; 4. Literature and art as a cognitive and natural object; 5. How to solve the ontological puzzles; 6. Literature, art and relevance; 7. Ιnterdisciplinary effects on the psychology and neuroscience of creativity; References; Index.
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