Kafka's Cognitive realism / Emily T. Troscianko.

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Main Author: Troscianko, Emily
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics ; 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Realism, Cognitive Realism, and Kafka
  • 2. Methodology and Relation to Other Areas of Literary Studies
  • 3. Embodied Cognition
  • 4. Embodied Cognition and Language
  • 5. Embodied Cognition and Literary Language
  • 6. Why Vision?
  • 7. Vision in Kafka Studies
  • 8. Kafkaesque Dualities
  • 9. Chapter Outlines
  • 1. Perception without Pictures
  • 1. Reading and Pictorialism versus Enactivism
  • 2. Pictorialism
  • 3.The Literary History of Pictorialism
  • 4. Realism and Pictures, in Practice
  • 5.The Philosophical and Scientific History of Pictorialism, and Emerging Non-Pictorial Strands
  • 6. Enactivism: A Solution to Pictorialist Problems?
  • 2. Re-Envisioning the Imagination
  • 1. Kafka's Diaries, Letters, and Fictions.
  • 2. Arts and Sciences in Kafka's Era
  • 3. Kafka, Pictures, and Perception: Overview
  • 4. Problems of Pictorialist Conceptions of Vision, the Imagination, Language, and Consciousness
  • 5. Recognising the Problems of Pictures
  • 6. Kafka's Enactivist Solutions to the Pictorialist Problems
  • 3. Kafka's Poetics of Perception in Der Proceß
  • 1. Non-Pictorial Evocation of Perception
  • 2. Linguistic Means of Engaging the Reader
  • 3. Evoking the Fallibility of Non-Pictorial Perception
  • 4. The Impossibility of Linear Narratives
  • 4. Feeling from New Perspectives
  • 1. Emotion in Kafka
  • 2. Emotion in Literary Studies
  • 3. Enactive Emotion
  • 4. (Emotional) Engagement with Others
  • 5. Reflection
  • 6. Emotion, Action, and Perspective
  • 7. Character, Self, Emotion, Action, and Perspective
  • Conclusion: Cognitive Realism in Kafka and Beyond.