{"product_id":"thinking-with-literature-towards-a-cognitive-criticism-9780198749417","title":"Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Terence Cave\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. \u003cem\u003eThinking with Literature\u003c\/em\u003e argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic. Literature constitutes one of the prime instruments of cultural improvisation; it is the embodiment of a powerful, inventive, and ever-changing cognitive agency. As such, it invites a cognitive mode of criticism, one which asserts the priority of the individual literary work as a unique product of human cognition. In this book, discussions of topics, arguments, and hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the theory of communication are woven into the fabric of a critical analysis which insists on the value of close reading: a poem by Yeats, a scene from Shakespeare, novels by Mme de Lafayette, Conrad, Frantzen, stories from Winnie-the-Pooh, and many others appear here on their own terms, with their own cognitive energies. Written in an accessible style, \u003cem\u003eThinking with Literature\u003c\/em\u003e speaks both to mainstream readers of literature and to specialists in cognitive studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46501004607639,"sku":"9780198749417","price":6529.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198749417.webp?v=1769184898","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thinking-with-literature-towards-a-cognitive-criticism-9780198749417","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}