What's the Difference?
Literature, Lacan, and Cognitive Science

Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention
San Francisco, 1998

Organized by Tony Jackson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte


  1. "Psychological and Social Effects of Literary Study: Convergences between Lacanian Theory and Cognitive Science," Mark Bracher, Kent State University.

  2. "The Poetics of Embodiment," Beth Bradburn, Boston College.

  3. "Strained Relations: Literary Theory Between Lacan and Cognitive Psychology," Tony Jackson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

  4. "Computer Minds and the Affect of Language," Ellie Ragland, University of Missouri, Columbia.


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