Karin Kukkonen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 981246 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karin Kukkonen |
| NOMBRES | Karin |
| APELLIDO | Kukkonen |
| FIRMA | KUKKONEN K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5240-3280 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Eye movements reflect thought patterns while listening to literary narratives
Listeners experience different types of thoughts while listening to literary texts. • These thoughts are similar to those experienced while reading literary texts. • These thought patterns are reflected in eye-movement behaviour. • The dichotomy on/off task does not cover the whole range of thoughts listeners have. • Immersion can positively influence text comprehension outcomes. While listening to an audiobook, listeners’ attention may shift bet…
Thinking elsewhere
Do eye movements reflect readers’ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements
While reading narrative texts, readers' attention often fluctuates from the text (e.g., immersion) to text-unrelated thoughts (e.g., mind-wandering). Research on mind-wandering and immersion suggests that they influence the reading process differently. In this article, we examine the types of thoughts readers have while reading a literary text. Specifically, we investigated the effect of immersion and mind-wandering on eye-movement behaviour duri…
Contingency traps
Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life. However, at the same time, these texts often manage to evoke a strong sense in readers that the events they read about could have turned out otherwise. I propose the notion of the “contingency trap” as a conceptual tool to address this theoretical challenge. This article addresses how authors deploy…
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
While literature is often used as a source of examples and illustrations across disciplines, literary studies tends to be underrepresented in interdisciplinary exchanges.Perhaps the reason lies in a lack of understanding what actually is the expertise of literary studies and how this can be useful in interdisciplinary settings.In this article, I propose to outline the expertise of literary scholars through concepts of 4E cognition and to devise a…
Voices in reading literature
Building upon recent studies of historical reading practices and their insights into the bodily and cognitive nature of reading, this article explores the impact of silent and voiced reading on the diverse bodily, cognitive, and emotional engagements with a text. Our starting point is that language is not merely a tool for translating mental content but emerges from and shapes embodied ways of interacting with the world, in this case, a reading-w…
Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literature as Uncertainty Practice
Literature emerges as an uncertainty practice in the context of today’s volatile environments. Considering literary texts as linguistic constructions reprogramming our lifeworld through formal constraints and creative rethinking, from the perspective of cognitive literary studies, Karin Kukkonen proposes an argument for the continued relevance of literature
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
Reading, Fast and Slow
Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital. This binary is in fact not native to the public debate about literature in the digital age but can be traced back from the digital revolution to modernist attitudes on literatu…
Coda
Literature is often considered the creative expression of language par excellence. This coda considers how the perspectives from Construction Grammar, as they are outlined in this special issue, can enter into dialogue with recent developments in how literary studies address creativity. Construction Grammar concerns itself with the productive generation and manipulation of language in everyday contexts, but, as this special issue goes to show, th…
Does Cognition Translate
Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts are entirely translatable and how center and periphery in the "world republic of literature" are organized around languages that are predominantly translated (or tra…
The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics
This chapter revisits earlier accounts of distributed cognition in cultural environments and practices. It extends the notion of designer environment (i.e. spatial and procedural arrangements that amplify and scaffold cognition) beyond the usual focus on problem-solving and the task at hand. For outlining the complex capacities that come into play with the linguistic, cultural and literary contexts of literary designer environment, it draws on th…
The place of the cognitive in literary studies
The so-called “cognitive turn” lies almost two decades behind us, and a cognitive approach to literary texts, interested in the processes of thought, feeling and imagination evoked and developed by
Reading by proxy
If literature is an archive of cognitive constellations, then readers can revisit these experiences from different periods and ages. How familiar, however, does a reader have to be with a particular historical context in order to browse the literary archive freely? This article will develop a cognitive perspective on intertextual references, arguing that texts often provide the necessary context knowledge themselves. Readers can read “by proxy”, …
A moving target - cognitive narratology and feminism
The present article develops a feminist approach to cognitive narratology on the basis of recent work in embodied cognition. Cognitive narratology does not traditionally consider gender perspectives, for a variety of reasons, none the least because the gendering of brains into ‘male’ and ‘female’ is deeply problematic. Contemporary cognitive narratology moves its point of interest however from the brain to the larger connections between brain, bo…
Fictionality
Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their similarities, unnatural approaches to narrative stress the exceptionality of the fictional. This article investigates disagreements and potential points of mutual interest in a dialogue between Henrik Skov Nielsen, representing unna…
Quixotic Reasoning
Bayesian probability calculus has recently emerged as a model for how the mind learns about fictional and cultural environments. This essay considers reading a narrative as a process of learning about the probabilities of the fictional world and explores two novels about Quixotic readers from a Bayesian perspective. The juxtaposition of the fictional and the real, which the standard understanding of the Quixote relies on, is replaced by an outlin…
Metalepsis in Popular Culture
When readers become victims of the murder mysteries they are immersed in, when superheroes embark on a quest to challenge their authors or when the fictional rock band Gorillaz flirt with Madonna during their performance, then metalepsis in popular culture occurs. Metalepsis describes the transgression of the boundary between the fictional world and (a representation of) the real world. This volume establishes a transmedial definition of metaleps…
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology1 Karin Kukkonen (bio) Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics formats are emerging, comics remain a paper-bound medium. And even if there are some problems with pinning down the exact nature of comics (see McCloud, Chute, and Hatfield for further discussion), they are easily recogniz…
Beyond Language
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology1 Karin Kukkonen (bio) Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics formats are emerging, comics remain a paper-bound medium. And even if there are some problems with pinning down the exact nature of comics (see McCloud, Chute, and Hatfield for further discussion), they are easily recogniz…
Fictionality
Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their similarities, unnatural approaches to narrative stress the exceptionality of the fictional. This article investigates disagreements and potential points of mutual interest in a dialogue between Henrik Skov Nielsen, representing unna…
Reading, Fast and Slow
Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital. This binary is in fact not native to the public debate about literature in the digital age but can be traced back from the digital revolution to modernist attitudes on literatu…
A moving target - cognitive narratology and feminism
The present article develops a feminist approach to cognitive narratology on the basis of recent work in embodied cognition. Cognitive narratology does not traditionally consider gender perspectives, for a variety of reasons, none the least because the gendering of brains into ‘male’ and ‘female’ is deeply problematic. Contemporary cognitive narratology moves its point of interest however from the brain to the larger connections between brain, bo…
Beyond Language
Metalepsis in Popular Culture
When readers become victims of the murder mysteries they are immersed in, when superheroes embark on a quest to challenge their authors or when the fictional rock band Gorillaz flirt with Madonna during their performance, then metalepsis in popular culture occurs. Metalepsis describes the transgression of the boundary between the fictional world and (a representation of) the real world. This volume establishes a transmedial definition of metaleps…
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology
Comics as a Test Case for Transmedial Narratology1 Karin Kukkonen (bio) Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics formats are emerging, comics remain a paper-bound medium. And even if there are some problems with pinning down the exact nature of comics (see McCloud, Chute, and Hatfield for further discussion), they are easily recogniz…
Quixotic Reasoning
Bayesian probability calculus has recently emerged as a model for how the mind learns about fictional and cultural environments. This essay considers reading a narrative as a process of learning about the probabilities of the fictional world and explores two novels about Quixotic readers from a Bayesian perspective. The juxtaposition of the fictional and the real, which the standard understanding of the Quixote relies on, is replaced by an outlin…
A moving target - cognitive narratology and feminism
The present article develops a feminist approach to cognitive narratology on the basis of recent work in embodied cognition. Cognitive narratology does not traditionally consider gender perspectives, for a variety of reasons, none the least because the gendering of brains into ‘male’ and ‘female’ is deeply problematic. Contemporary cognitive narratology moves its point of interest however from the brain to the larger connections between brain, bo…
Fictionality
Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their similarities, unnatural approaches to narrative stress the exceptionality of the fictional. This article investigates disagreements and potential points of mutual interest in a dialogue between Henrik Skov Nielsen, representing unna…
The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics
This chapter revisits earlier accounts of distributed cognition in cultural environments and practices. It extends the notion of designer environment (i.e. spatial and procedural arrangements that amplify and scaffold cognition) beyond the usual focus on problem-solving and the task at hand. For outlining the complex capacities that come into play with the linguistic, cultural and literary contexts of literary designer environment, it draws on th…
The place of the cognitive in literary studies
The so-called “cognitive turn” lies almost two decades behind us, and a cognitive approach to literary texts, interested in the processes of thought, feeling and imagination evoked and developed by
Reading by proxy
If literature is an archive of cognitive constellations, then readers can revisit these experiences from different periods and ages. How familiar, however, does a reader have to be with a particular historical context in order to browse the literary archive freely? This article will develop a cognitive perspective on intertextual references, arguing that texts often provide the necessary context knowledge themselves. Readers can read “by proxy”, …
Coda
Literature is often considered the creative expression of language par excellence. This coda considers how the perspectives from Construction Grammar, as they are outlined in this special issue, can enter into dialogue with recent developments in how literary studies address creativity. Construction Grammar concerns itself with the productive generation and manipulation of language in everyday contexts, but, as this special issue goes to show, th…
Does Cognition Translate
Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts are entirely translatable and how center and periphery in the "world republic of literature" are organized around languages that are predominantly translated (or tra…
Reading, Fast and Slow
Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital. This binary is in fact not native to the public debate about literature in the digital age but can be traced back from the digital revolution to modernist attitudes on literatu…
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
Literary Citizenship in Scandinavia in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literature as Uncertainty Practice
Literature emerges as an uncertainty practice in the context of today’s volatile environments. Considering literary texts as linguistic constructions reprogramming our lifeworld through formal constraints and creative rethinking, from the perspective of cognitive literary studies, Karin Kukkonen proposes an argument for the continued relevance of literature
Contingency traps
Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life. However, at the same time, these texts often manage to evoke a strong sense in readers that the events they read about could have turned out otherwise. I propose the notion of the “contingency trap” as a conceptual tool to address this theoretical challenge. This article addresses how authors deploy…
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
While literature is often used as a source of examples and illustrations across disciplines, literary studies tends to be underrepresented in interdisciplinary exchanges.Perhaps the reason lies in a lack of understanding what actually is the expertise of literary studies and how this can be useful in interdisciplinary settings.In this article, I propose to outline the expertise of literary scholars through concepts of 4E cognition and to devise a…
Voices in reading literature
Building upon recent studies of historical reading practices and their insights into the bodily and cognitive nature of reading, this article explores the impact of silent and voiced reading on the diverse bodily, cognitive, and emotional engagements with a text. Our starting point is that language is not merely a tool for translating mental content but emerges from and shapes embodied ways of interacting with the world, in this case, a reading-w…
Thinking elsewhere
Do eye movements reflect readers’ thoughts during reading? Evidence from multidimensional experience sampling and eye movements
While reading narrative texts, readers' attention often fluctuates from the text (e.g., immersion) to text-unrelated thoughts (e.g., mind-wandering). Research on mind-wandering and immersion suggests that they influence the reading process differently. In this article, we examine the types of thoughts readers have while reading a literary text. Specifically, we investigated the effect of immersion and mind-wandering on eye-movement behaviour duri…
Eye movements reflect thought patterns while listening to literary narratives
Listeners experience different types of thoughts while listening to literary texts. • These thoughts are similar to those experienced while reading literary texts. • These thought patterns are reflected in eye-movement behaviour. • The dichotomy on/off task does not cover the whole range of thoughts listeners have. • Immersion can positively influence text comprehension outcomes. While listening to an audiobook, listeners’ attention may shift bet…
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