2016 - 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0680-1302-01 | Basic Issues in Theory of Literature: Cognitive Perspective | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The main goal of the course is to discuss several fundamental issues in literary theory by relating them to theories in the cognitive sciences. In particular, the course will address the following two fundamental issues:
1. The way poetic language conform and interfere with regular cognitive processes
2. Text processing and the short narrative text.