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A prehistory of cognitive poetics : neoclassicism and the novel
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"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for ...
"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel"--
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- Creator
- Karin Kukkonen
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- English
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
- ©2017
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- xv, 263 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190634766, 0190634766, 9780190634780, 0190634782
- OCLC
- ocn958066392
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Neoclassical Poetics and the Rise of the Novel -- 1.1 Beating the Bounds of the Rules in Incognita -- 1.2 Manners, Passions, Unities -- 1.3 Neoclassicism and the Sciences -- Chapter 2. The Situational Logic of Vraisemblance -- 2.1. Cognitive Moves -- 2.2. Suc http://www.radiolab.org/story/dust-planet/ cessful Solutions -- 2.3. Vraisemblance Now -- <strong>I: Poetic Justice</strong> -- Chapter 3: Samuel Richardson and the Project of Poetic Justice -- 3.1. Virtue Rewarded -- 3.2. Altruistic Punishers in B-Hall -- 3.3 Pamela -- Shamela -- Anti-Pamela -- Chapter 4: The Trials of Clarissa -- 4.1 Editing the Social Contract -- 4.2 Lovelace's Happy Endings -- 4.3. Poetic Justice at the Limits -- Chapter 5: Ann Radcliffe and the Abdication of the Superpunisher -- 5.1 Comeuppance Clockworks -- 5.2 Enter the Uncanny -- 5.3 The Supernatural and Superpunishers -- <strong>II: The Unities</strong> -- Chapter 6: The Best Possible Storyworld: Johnson's Rasselas -- 6.1 Rasselas, the Imagination and the Unities -- 6.2 Event Cognition, Spatialization and the Conceptual Shape of the Storyworld -- 6.3 Closure in Abissinia -- Chapter 7: Utopian Reasoning in Mercier's L'An 2440 and Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century -- 7.1 Poetics and Politics -- 7.2 The Cognitive Estrangements of Utopia -- 7.3 The Idea of Progress and Intertemporal Bargaining in Utopian Fiction -- 7.4 A Unified Utopia -- Chapter 8: The Dramatic Passages of The Castle of Otranto -- 8.1. Where the Bodies Are -- 8.2 The Return of Racine -- 8.3 Embodied Experience in the Novel -- III: Decorum -- Chapter 9. Henry Fielding's Probability Design -- 9.1 "Sagacious Readers" -- 9.2 Decorum and Surprise -- 9.3 A Hero "Certainly Born to be Hanged" -- Chapter 10. The Female Quixote and the Probability of Romance -- 10.1. The Querelle de Miss Groves -- 10.2 Educating Readers -- 10.3 Arabella's Wager -- Chapter 11. John Cleland vs. the Novel -- 11.1. Building a Social World in Mrs Mercier's Academy -- 11.2. The Predictable Novel -- 11.3. Love, Duty and the End of Curiosity -- Conclusion: Explorations in the Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics -- Bibliography