Books in the Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series series

Drawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.

A cultural-cognitive analysis of Indian cinema intended to increase understanding and appreciation of Indian films in the English-speaking world.

A dynamic array of top scholars from the sciences and the humanities present new perspectives on the mind and its literary quests, ranging from Hamlet to Kafka to Barrie's Peter Pan.

Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicultural comics from around the world.

Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of "persistence" and "transformation" in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Vea, and Helena Maria Viramontes.

Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicultural comics from around the world.

A groundbreaking investigation into what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about the creation and appreciation of visual art, literature, and music.

A new bridge between literary studies and analytic aesthetics, drawing on a diverse range of texts-from Scheherazade and Raymond Chandler to graphic novels and Woody Allen films.

Noted scholars analyze a variety of creative works-plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke- to offer a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

Offers a perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies.

Using Brazilian films about slavery as case studies, Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism offers new insight into the deployment of cinematic narrative strategies to influence viewers and their conceptions of Brazilian national identity.

A sweeping collection of approaches to narrative theory, with analyses drawn from a variety of truly global literature, films, and television shows.