Literary Brains
Neuroscience, Criticism, and Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Colm Hogan (0000-0003-2009-0974, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 293-304 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12144 |
| OpenAlex | W1531223588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
The “neurohumanities” are largely traditional fields of humanistic study – prominently including literature and related arts, such as film – that have taken up findings or methods of neuroscience to advance their research. Despite some (perhaps premature) media attention (see, for example, Quart), the body of work in neurohumanities is limited. It is therefore probably too early to undertake a survey of research in neuroscientific literary criticism and theory. However, there is considerable interest among literary scholars in the possibilities for such criticism and theory, and there are many areas of neuroscientific research that have begun to be incorporated into literary study or are likely to do so in the near future. The following essay first overviews some basic principles of neuroscience, selecting aspects of neuroscientific research that are particularly germane to literary study. It then considers the main tasks of literary criticism and theory and some of the ways in which neuroscience bears on those tasks. The essay ends with a brief comment on the relation between literary study that draws on neuroscience and neuroscience that takes literature as its object
Art · Cognitive science · Criticism · Epistemology · Humanism · Literary criticism · Literary science · Literary theory · Literature · Relation (database · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neuroscience · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Philosophy · Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Empathy and the Novel
Attractive Faces Are Only Average
Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Error Detection, and the Online Monitoring of Performance
Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners
On the Origin of Stories
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
Literature in the Reader
The Neurology of Narrative
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |