What is the role of interpretation—the close reading of individual texts—in cognitive literary studies? In attempting to come to grips with this vexed question, my article focuses on the complex divides that separate the practice of interpretation from cognitive-scientific research. I argue that cognitive literary studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and I survey lines of research that have already put into practice this intuition. Secondly, I explore a heuristic use of interpretation, where insights from cognitive science are leveraged—in what I call a “cognitive thematics”—to illuminate a background of metacognitive questions.
Ghent University, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0002-7955-0325
Chapter Title
Gli studi letterari cognitivi e lo statuto dell'interpretazione: un tentativo di mappatura teorica
Authors
Marco Caracciolo
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5.05
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Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
La narrazione come incontro
Editors
Fabio Ciotti, Carmela Morabito
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
174
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0044-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0045-5
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0046-2
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X