Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative: Cognitive Approaches to Culture
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814214824
ISBN-10: 0814214827
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 15 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Cognitive Approaches to Culture
ISBN-10: 0814214827
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 15 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Recenzii
“Ghosal’s book is a wonderful example of cutting edge, interdisciplinary humanities research that has implications for future studies of the novel and the mind and ways artists engage their audiences. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” —J. J. Donohue, CHOICE
"Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind urges us to be more open-minded (pun intended) and embrace explanatory pluralism for how minds work."—Sue Kim, author of On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
"As cognitive literary studies moves more adeptly across narrative media, Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind admirably takes media-conscious, multimodal fictions into the fold, exploring the ways in which narrative fiction culturally and historically encodes what we think we are doing when we perceive, map, remember, and forget our own lived experiences." —David Ciccoricco, author of Reading Network Fiction
"Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind urges us to be more open-minded (pun intended) and embrace explanatory pluralism for how minds work."—Sue Kim, author of On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
"As cognitive literary studies moves more adeptly across narrative media, Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind admirably takes media-conscious, multimodal fictions into the fold, exploring the ways in which narrative fiction culturally and historically encodes what we think we are doing when we perceive, map, remember, and forget our own lived experiences." —David Ciccoricco, author of Reading Network Fiction
Notă biografică
Torsa Ghosal is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento.
Extras
How do we think about thinking in the twenty-first century? How do narratives construct and mediate knowledge about cognition? What are the implications of the formal techniques authors use to represent cognition and mental pathologies in response to twenty-first-century social, technological, and environmental developments? Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative addresses these questions by analyzing contemporary British and American print fictions that combine a variety of semiotic modes (photographs, maps, different styles of inscription) to represent cognitive processes.
In order to produce knowledge about consciousness and cognition, philosophers and scientists have always relied on the latest modes and media: from Aristotle’s “tabula rasa” and John Locke’s “white paper” to Alan Turing’s, John von Neumann’s, and Jerry Fodor’s versions of the “computational minds” there are numerous instances in which “mind” is modelled after what is “out[side] of mind” for heuristic purposes. Psychologist Douwe Draaisma observes that philosophical and psychological language describing memory has a “metaphorical cast” (2000, 3). Media technologies invented to store and reproduce information become the bases for generating novel models of memory. What Draaisma says about memory also rings true for other cognitive processes. Theories of cognition in general have a metaphorical cast. Out of Mind is concerned with literary narrative’s engagement with this rich history and practice of analogical thinking about the mind. It maps how semiotic modes rendering characters’ perception, comprehension, and memory in narratives are involved in the study of cognition across disciplines. While connecting cognitive-scientific and philosophical frameworks with the poetics of thought representation, this book reflects on the social, technological, and environmental conditions prompting widespread reappraisals of what it means to think in the twenty-first century.
The narratives examined in Out of Mind include Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography (2002), Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture (2006), Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008), Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World (2005), Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes (2010), J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S. (2013), and Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting (2014). These narratives were composed in an era dominated by classical computing, and the impact of computing technologies is palpable on their approaches to thought. Besides discussing this impact, Out of Mind considers how and why semiotic modes and media—including maps and pictures—that were troped on to interpret cognitive activities well before the emergence of classical computing come to be materially incorporated in them. That twenty-first-century narratives reproduce the modes and media in their material form rather than only allude to them through language is significant. The material presence of the dominant figures so frequently invoked in metaphors explicating thought defamiliarizes these figures, directing us—the readers—to recognize the technological and cultural forces behind widely accepted truisms about the mind. At the same time, literary narratives are not composed to simply communicate knowledge about cognition or convince readers of the validity of cognitive-scientific and philosophical theories, even when how minds work is a major thematic preoccupation of a narrative. Instead, narratives reframe extant and emerging knowledge in creative ways, incorporate and transform conventions of thought representation available in literary history, and playfully hint at unresolved issues and ideas. Without losing sight of the distinction in rhetorical goals of literary artifacts from scientific and philosophical disquisitions, Out of Mind charts the co-emergence of aesthetic and cognitive-scientific conceptualizations of normative and divergent thinking.
In order to produce knowledge about consciousness and cognition, philosophers and scientists have always relied on the latest modes and media: from Aristotle’s “tabula rasa” and John Locke’s “white paper” to Alan Turing’s, John von Neumann’s, and Jerry Fodor’s versions of the “computational minds” there are numerous instances in which “mind” is modelled after what is “out[side] of mind” for heuristic purposes. Psychologist Douwe Draaisma observes that philosophical and psychological language describing memory has a “metaphorical cast” (2000, 3). Media technologies invented to store and reproduce information become the bases for generating novel models of memory. What Draaisma says about memory also rings true for other cognitive processes. Theories of cognition in general have a metaphorical cast. Out of Mind is concerned with literary narrative’s engagement with this rich history and practice of analogical thinking about the mind. It maps how semiotic modes rendering characters’ perception, comprehension, and memory in narratives are involved in the study of cognition across disciplines. While connecting cognitive-scientific and philosophical frameworks with the poetics of thought representation, this book reflects on the social, technological, and environmental conditions prompting widespread reappraisals of what it means to think in the twenty-first century.
The narratives examined in Out of Mind include Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography (2002), Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture (2006), Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008), Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World (2005), Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes (2010), J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S. (2013), and Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting (2014). These narratives were composed in an era dominated by classical computing, and the impact of computing technologies is palpable on their approaches to thought. Besides discussing this impact, Out of Mind considers how and why semiotic modes and media—including maps and pictures—that were troped on to interpret cognitive activities well before the emergence of classical computing come to be materially incorporated in them. That twenty-first-century narratives reproduce the modes and media in their material form rather than only allude to them through language is significant. The material presence of the dominant figures so frequently invoked in metaphors explicating thought defamiliarizes these figures, directing us—the readers—to recognize the technological and cultural forces behind widely accepted truisms about the mind. At the same time, literary narratives are not composed to simply communicate knowledge about cognition or convince readers of the validity of cognitive-scientific and philosophical theories, even when how minds work is a major thematic preoccupation of a narrative. Instead, narratives reframe extant and emerging knowledge in creative ways, incorporate and transform conventions of thought representation available in literary history, and playfully hint at unresolved issues and ideas. Without losing sight of the distinction in rhetorical goals of literary artifacts from scientific and philosophical disquisitions, Out of Mind charts the co-emergence of aesthetic and cognitive-scientific conceptualizations of normative and divergent thinking.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Multimodality and Cognitive Literary Studies
Chapter 1 Typographic Minds: Cognitive Disabilities and Explanatory Pluralism
Chapter 2 Selfieing Minds: Picturing and Sharing Subjectivities
Chapter 3 Cartographic Minds: Spatial Thinking, Spatial Reading
Chapter 4 Anti-Archival Minds: Collecting, Deleting, and Scaling Memories
Coda Binge Reading versus Picnoleptic Reading
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction Multimodality and Cognitive Literary Studies
Chapter 1 Typographic Minds: Cognitive Disabilities and Explanatory Pluralism
Chapter 2 Selfieing Minds: Picturing and Sharing Subjectivities
Chapter 3 Cartographic Minds: Spatial Thinking, Spatial Reading
Chapter 4 Anti-Archival Minds: Collecting, Deleting, and Scaling Memories
Coda Binge Reading versus Picnoleptic Reading
Works Cited
Index
Descriere
Integrates narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to situate contemporary literature’s depiction of thought within current debates about cognition.