The Mimetic Dimension
Literature between Neuroscience and Phenomenology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9467788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Anna Gosetti‐Ferencei (0000-0003-3150-7106, Fordham University, corresponding author), J A Gosetti-Ferencei |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 425-448 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayu003 |
| OpenAlex | W2135890277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
When we are most immersed in literary reading, and when that immersion is most significant, we may experience a literary work as constitutive of a ‘world’. With reference to the phenomenological tradition, it can be shown how this world is both a novel creation and serves to disclose, not least by shifting our perspective from, the world of ordinary experience. In this light, it will be shown how the problem of mimesis poses a challenge for recent neuroscientific approaches to literature. At the same time, neuroscientific findings show the insufficiency of phenomenological accounts which fail to acknowledge the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie literary imagining. I introduce the notion of the ‘mimetic dimension’ in order to clarify what accounts based on phenomenology and neuroscience can and cannot explain about literary mimesis and the experience of a literary world
Art · Cognitive science · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Phenomenology (philosophy · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |