Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular MindThis book is a study of the relation between cognitive linguistics and literary theory. Theory of literary interpretation is reinterpreted in terms of current debate in cognitive science. While research in the humanities and social sciences is reasonably concerned with charting the power of culture to structure and constrain, Spolsky suggests that it is worthwhile to investigate the role of biological materialism as co-legislator of human life and understanding. The inevitable slippage we have come to acknowledge between words and the world has at least an analogue, and presumably also a source, in the workings of the human brain. |
Contents
Minds Modules and Models | 19 |
Dennetts gappy consciousness | 37 |
2 | 43 |
3 | 61 |
4 | 83 |
Transformation and Inference | 111 |
Immobile and Immortal in the Monument | 133 |
The Dynamic of Freedom and Compulsion | 191 |
Notes | 209 |
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