International Conference on
The Work of Fiction: Cognitive Perspectives
Bar-Ilan University, 5-7 June, 2001
TUESDAY JUNE 5, 2001
Opening Session
Greetings:
- Ranon Katzoff (Dean of Humanities)
- Susan Rothstein (Chair, Department of English and Linguistics)
- Ellen Spolsky (Director, The Lechter Institute for Literary Research)
- Alan Richardson (Boston College),
"A Neuroanatomy of Criticism: Mapping Literary Scholarship on Minds, Texts, and Brains."
- David Miall (University of Alberta),
"A Feeling for Fiction: Becoming What We Behold."
Afternoon Session
Chair: David Hanauer (Tel Aviv University)
- Meir Sternberg (Tel Aviv University),
"The Universals of Narrative: Temporalities in Play."
- Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut),
"Morality, Literary Exempla, and the Arabic Aristotelians: An Essay on Ethics and Narrative."
Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Cognitive Studies and Universals
Moderator: Shaindy Rudoff (Bar-Ilan University)
Presenters:
- Ziva Ben Porath (Tel Aviv University)
- Lalita Pandit (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
- Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut)
Respondents:
- Eugene Ostashevsky (Bilkent University)
- Meir Sternberg (Tel Aviv University)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2001
Morning Session
Chair: Kenneth Meyer (Bar-Ilan University)
- Reuven Tsur and Motti Benari (Tel Aviv University),
"Composition of Place: Diffuseness and the Meditative Poem."
Workshop: Metaphor Comprehension as Problem Solving
Chair: Joel Waters (Bar-Ilan University)
Presenters:
- Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University)
- Joseph Glicksohn (Bar-Ilan University)
Respondent:
- Josef Stern (Bar-Ilan University)
Afternoon Session
Roundtable on Empirical Approaches to Cultural and Literary Issues
Moderator: Tamar Jacobi (Tel Aviv University)
Presenters:
- David Miall (University of Alberta)
- Reuven Tsur (Tel Aviv University)
Respondents:
- Alan Richardson (Boston College)
- Joel Waters (Bar-Ilan University)
THURSDAY JUNE 7, 2001
Morning Session
Chair: William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University)
- Tony Jackson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte),
"Interdisciplinarity Ebbs and Flows: Consideration of Cognitive-Scientific Approaches to The Waves."
- Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University),
"The Crisis of Exemplarity from Cymbeline to Charles I: Categorizations and Correspondences."
- F. Elizabeth Hart (University of Connecticut),
"Embodied Genre: The Conceptual Semantics of Shakespeare's Dramatic Types."
- Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky),
"Richardson's Clarissa and the Traps of Mind Reading."
Afternoon Session
Roundtable on Culture and Cognition
Moderator: Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky)
Presenters:
- F. Elizabeth Hart (University of Connecticut)
- Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)
- Alan Richardson (Boston College)
Respondent:
- Susan Handelman (Bar-Ilan University)
Summation and discussion
- Alan Richardson (Boston College)
- Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)