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Within the last decade, our understanding of the cognition of literature has been transformed by technological discoveries, such as the reflection neuron system and its own role in empathy. Responding to questions such as why we care so deeply about imaginary character types, what brain activities are sparked whenever we read literature, and how literary works and scholarship can notify the cognitive sciences, this booklet surveys the thrilling recent developments in neuro-scientific cognitive literary studies and includes efforts from leading scholars in both the humanities and the sciences. Beginning with an overview of the progression of literary studies, the editors track the recent switch from poststructuralism and its own relativism to an evergrowing interdisciplinary affinity for the empirical realm of neuroscience. In illuminating essays that take a look at the cognitive procedures at work whenever we experience imaginary worlds, with findings on the brain's creative imagination sites, this collection also explores the impact of literature on self and society, finishing with a dialogue on today's and future of the mindset of fiction. Contributors include Literature and the Brain creator Norman N. Holland, on the neuroscience of metafiction shown in Don Quixote; medical psychologist Aaron Mishara on the neurology of self in the hypnagogic (between waking and sleeping) point out and its own manifestations in Kafka's stories; and literary scholar Brad Sullivan's exploration of Loving poetry as a didactic tool, making use of David Hartley's eighteenth-century theories of sensory experience. The booklet is shared by the School of Tx Press.
