Cognitive Science and Literature: Questions of Method

Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention
New Orleans, 2001

Arranged by Blakey Vermeule, Northwestern University

1. "Cognitive Fictions: The Literary Mind in Postmodern America," Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois, Chicago.

2. "The Novel as Thought Experiment," Nicholas W. Beauchamp, Johns Hopkins University.

3. "Gazes, Fires, and Brain-Body Repair in Brontë's Jane Eyre," Nina Pelikan Strauss, State University of New York, Purchase.

4. "Gossip: The Palm Oil with Which Stories Are Eaten," Blakey Vermeule, Northwestern University.

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