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Historicizing Cognition:
Literature and the Cognitive Revolution
A Forum at the Annual Convention
of the Modern Language Association
San Francisco, December 27-30,
1998
Organized by Francis Steen and Lisa
Zunshine
Revised December 27, 1998
Proposal | Main Session | First Workshop | Second Workshop
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Click on first-name links for e-mail address and last-name links for
external home pages
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Tuesday, 29 December
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| Chair: Martha Woodmansee, Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University |
| Mark Turner, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Doctoral Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitve Science: An Update |
| Ellen Spolsky, Professor of English and Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research, Bar-Ilan University, Israel: Cognitive Universals and Historical Change |
| Patrick Colm Hogan, Professor of English, University of Connecticut at Storrs: Literary Feeling: Cognitive Schemas and Sanskrit Narrative Theory |
| Paul Hernadi, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara: Why Is Literature: The Interplay of Belief, Feeling, and Desire in Cultural Transactions |
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Wednesday, 30 December
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| Chair: Vimala Herman, Professor of English, University of Nottingham, UK. |
| Todd Oakley, Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Linguistics, Case Western Reserve University: Implied Narratives: From Landor to Visatril-i.m. |
| Margaret Freeman, Professor of English, Los Angeles Valley College: 'Mak[ing] new stock from the salt': Poetic Metaphor as Conceptual Blend in Sylvia Plath's "The Applicant" |
| Joseph Bizup, Assistant Professor, English, Yale University: "The Structure of Organic Form": Projections of the Body in John Ruskin |
| Lisa Zunshine, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara: Domain Specificity and Conceptual Blending in A.L. Barbauld's Hymns |
| Respondent: Mark Turner, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Doctoral Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland |
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Wednesday, 30 December
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| Chair: Anne Williams, Professor of English, University of Georgia. |
| Mary Crane, Professor of English, Boston College: Cognitive Hamlet and the Sources of Action |
| Francis Steen, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara: The Politics of Love: Propaganda and Subversion in Aphra Behn's Love-Letters |
| Alan Richardson, Professor, Department of English, Boston College: Of Heartache and Head Injury: Minds, Brains, and the Subject of Persuasion |
New MLA Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
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