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Sent Away from the Garden? The Pastoral Logic of Tasso, Marvell, and Haley
- Author(s):
- Ellen Spolsky (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- Cognitive science--Philosophy, Literary form--Study and teaching, Italian literature, European drama--Renaissance
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- predictive processing hypothesis, Archetypes, andrew marvell, Tasso, Pastoral, Philosophy of cognitive science, Genre studies, Renaissance drama
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/mnt2-wa45
- Abstract:
- The pastoral genre provides cognitive literary historians a clear example of how genre cooperates with and enacts the most basic cognitive tasks of the imagination, namely the ability to toggle between concrete sense data and abstractions. This essay discusses the predictive processing hypothesis and suggest that it offers a usefully revisionary way of thinking about genres and archetypes. Examples from Tasso's Aminta (c.1573), Marvell's "The Garden," (c.1650), and Jennifer Haley's The Nether (2013) exemplify both the artists' and the audiences' cognitive flexibility, and their attempts to solve representationally hungry problems by re-representing them.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. Date:
- February 2018
- Journal:
- Costellazioni: Revista di lingue e letterature
- Volume:
- 5
- Page Range:
- 181 - 203
- ISSN:
- 2532-2001
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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