31.519, Books: Probability Designs: Kukkonen

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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:47:24
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Probability Designs: Kukkonen

 


Title: Probability Designs 
Subtitle: Literature and Predictive Processing 
Series Title: Cognition and Poetics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/probability-designs-9780190050955?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Karin Kukkonen

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190050955 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

In Probability Designs, Karin Kukkonen proposes a new perspective on the
complex role of predictions and probabilities in the dynamics of literary
narrative. Predictive processing, an emerging account of cognition in
neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, provides the theoretical backdrop
for an investigation of how literary texts shape readers' expectations and
experience. Through deft analysis of the literary canon in a variety of
cultures and languages, she constructs a comprehensive model of probability in
a novel's plots, immersive appeal, and potential for reflection. Linking
predictive processing to the idea that culture and cognition always develop in
tandem, Kukkonen then sketches a place for literature and literary form in
this exchange - a mode of exploratory thinking that takes language and writing
to the next level.

Chance encounters, last-minute rescues, and coincidences launch Kukkonen's
investigation of the literary manipulation of predictions. Through an
enlightening blend of cognitive sciences and literary theory, Probability
Designs enriches scholarly debates in literary studies and sheds light on how
vital literature is for human thought.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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