The cognitive humanities : embodied mind in literature and culture / Peter Garratt, editor.

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

xvii, 259 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Cognitive Humanities: Whence and Whither?; Notes; Part 1: Theorizing the Embodied Mind; Chapter 2: Enactive Perception and Fictional Worlds; Fictional Worlds and Deictic Shifts; Fictionality, Self-Reflection and Imagined Spaces; Literary Imagining as Enactive Perception; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: The Opacity of Fictional Minds: Transparency, Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis; Interpretive Cognition and the Exceptionality Thesis.

Affective Patterns, Moods, Perception: Opacity and the Interpretive Mind in Kate Chopin's The AwakeningNotes; Chapter 4: 'Un-Walling' the Wall: Embodiment and Viewpoint; Embodied Construal and Viewpoint; How to Un-wall the Wall: Re-construal and Its Interpretive Consequences; Materiality, Embodiment and Genre Conventions; Creativity and Meaning; Notes; Chapter 5: Textures of Thought: Theatricality, Performativity and the Extended/Enactive Debate; Bringing Forth: Magnitudes of Enaction; Standing In: Extension and Its Discontents; Cognitive Ecology: Textures of Thought?; Notes.

Part 2: Reading CultureChapter 6: Extending the Renaissance Mind: 'Look What Thy Memory Cannot Contain'; Renaissance Textuality and Memory; 'Sonnet 77'; Notes; Chapter 7: 'Her Silence Flouts Me': Stillness in The Taming of the Shrew; Cognitive Underload; Offline Cognition; Failed Performances, Overlapping Performances; Conclusions: What Types of Stillness Are We Buying Into?; Notes; Chapter 8: From World to Worldview: An Energy Principle of Psychosocial Dynamics; Energy Is Everywhere: Fictive Life-Energy in Story and Theory.

Energy-Patterns in Metaphoric Narrative: Lyric Poetry and Prose FictionIntuitive Worldview: Forms of Imagined Energy; Energy, or Umph-Stuff; Burke vs. Paine: Worldviews as Energy-Models; Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; SDs + Expressions; Burke's Model; Paine, Rights of Man; SDs + Expressions; Paine's Model; Conclusions; Notes; Part 3: Cognitive Futures; Chapter 9: Bayesian Bodies: The Predictive Dimension of Embodied Cognition and Culture1; Probability, Embodied Cognition and the Narrative; Patterned Practice; Reading the Cheshire Cat; Notes.

Chapter 10: Emergences: Towards a Cognitive-Affective Model for Creativity in the ArtsFrontal Lobes and Disinhibition; Neurds and Nodes; Pleasure, Reward and Affect; Towards a Cognitive Affective Model; Notes; Chapter 11: Autism in the Wild: Bridging the Gap Between Experiment and Experience; Notes; Appendix; Transcript; Preliminary Exchange; Rhythmic Exchanges; Chapter 12: Hardware, Software, Wetware: Cognitive Science and Biohacking in the Digital Humanities; The Digital and the Cognitive; Transhumanism and DH (and More); Notes; Bibliography; Index.