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Cognitive cultural studies; wandering minds; against narrativity; memory studies; Walter Benjamin
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Wandering In Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory Of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
Wandering In Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory Of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder
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This study offers a theory of wandering cognition as an animating feature of western literature, in general, and of contemporary literature, in particular. Unlike existing theories of peripatetic bodies and minds in fiction that focus primarily on political critiques, cultural practices, or pleasures of digression, this theory of wandering offers an aesthetic philosophy and ethical critique of representing cognition, memory, and narrative identity that finds affinities in the political, phenomenological, and ethical thought of Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, and Giorgio Agamben.
Unlike existing cognitive theories of literature that apply cognitive theory to literary study (or vice versa), this study develops …