Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies E-Book

Howard Mancing

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly contradict current dominant scientific views. By contrast, this monograph promotes an alternative paradigm for literary studies, namely Contextualism, and in so doing highlights the similarities and differences among the sometimes-conflicting contemporary cognitive approaches to literature and performance, arguing not in favor of one over the other but for Contextualism as their common ground.