The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities : Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in a single volume. It takes Australian fiction on the leading edge by paving the way for a new direction in Australian literary criticism. Contents Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1 Cognitive Australian Literary Studies and the Creation of New Heuristic Constellations • Jean-François Vernay 2 Narrative Empathy in Contemporary Australian Multiperspectival Novels: Cognitive Readings of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Gail Jones’s Five Bells • Lukas Klik 3 Contemplating Affects: The Mystery of Emotion in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend • Victoria Reeve 4 Affective Narratology, Cultural Memory, and Aboriginal Culture in Kim Scott’s Taboo • Francesca Di Blasio 5 Finding Voice: Cognition, Cate Kennedy’s “Cold Snap,” and the Australian Bush Tradition • Lisa Smithies 6 On Waiting Upon: Speculations by an Australian Novelist on the Experience of Writing a Commissioned Novel • Sue Woolfe 7 Performing a Neuro Lit Crit Analysis of Specky Magee in the Australian Health Context: Persuading Readers to Exercise • Rocío Riestra-Camacho 8 Feeling the Land: Embodied Relations in Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction • Dorothee Klein Cognitive Australian Literary Studies: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by the Editor Index "This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field"-- Provided by publisher