The Epistemology of Cognitive Literary Studies, by Elizabeth Hart

However, by the early 2000s the emphasis of cognitive approaches on mind embodiment or the embodied mind had made them partly dependent on neuroscientific studies (for the epistemological consequences of this situation, see Hart 2001).

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Literary scholars have begun incorporating the insights of cognitive science into literary studies, bringing to bear on questions of literary experience the results of explorations within a wide range of fields that define today's cognitive science. The investigation of the human mind and its reasoning processes encompasses a rich variety of empirical and speculative disciplines, including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, computer science, philosophy, and anthropology. These disciplines are all related to one another by the questions they ask about the brain and mind and the ground they cover in staking out their research agendas; but each also contributes uniquely in terms of individual scope and focus. Literary critics, eavesdropping on this maturing coalition, are now producing critical works that apply cognitive research to a similarly impressive range of literary concerns, with results so far that seem to span the gap between traditional and more contemporary literary critical approaches.

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Hart, F. Elizabeth. 2001. “The Epistemology of Cognitive Literary Studies.” Philosophy and Literatur...