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4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found its Feet by Karin Kukkonen (review)
Ist Teil von
SubStance, 2021, Vol.50 (1), p.203-209
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Characters’ actions and emotions do evoke our bodily states through the mirror neurons in our brain, but the responses, which are “rather small-scale, local and preconscious,” haven’t reached the resonant effect (16). Borrowing the term “lifeworld” from phenomenology, she emphasizes the embodied nature of literary reading and also hints that the philosophical foundation for cognitive poetics can be found in phenomenology. [...]the novel functions as a “technology,” like a telescope, which acquaints us with the information about “the cosmos in science” or, like a notebook, which “extends the cognitive process of memory into the material environment” (4). [...]Fielding challenges the idea prevalent in her time that “what it means to read had been settled” and calls for “deep reading,” a practice involving the reconciliation of “the immersive appeal” and “the rational promise” of the narrative (108). [...]it seems that there is no clear demarcation between Burney’s life writing and her fiction, which stands to reason.