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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies considers?? via a variety of methodologies and combinations of interdisciplinary approaches?? how the architecture that enables human cognitive processing interacts with cultural and historical contexts. Organized into five parts (Narrative?? History?? Imagination; Emotions and Empathy; The New Unconscious; Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature; and Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience)?? the volume uses case studies from a wide range of historical periods (from the fourth century BCE to the twenty-first century) and national literary traditions (including South Asian?? postcolonial anglophone and francophone?? Chinese?? Japanese?? English?? Iranian?? Russian?? Italian?? French?? German?? and Spanish).


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