Introduction: A Poetics of Interpretation

Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: The Progress of Cognitive Poetics

The Introduction of “Aesthetics” in Baumgarten’s Meditationes and Its Background

In his Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus Baumgarten famously called for Aesthetics, which he considered a branch of knowledge of the clear but confused perceptions that could not be reduced to any other kind of more distinct knowledge. This took place in a context of both Leibnizian-Wolffian Rationalism and Pietism. Regarding the first, Baumgarten used Leibniz’s tax...

\"Cursed Watch\" F.Z. Jalali in the context of F.M. Dostoevsky\'s poetics

This article analyzes the story known Iranian writer Firuz Zanuzi Jalali. "Cursed Watch" compared with the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, are analogous to the events of the novel "Crime and Punishment". There are Parallels between street accidents, there are similarities in the descriptions seen by the characters, marked similarities in the descriptions of the paintings, whi...

Literature and the Cognitive Revolution: An Introduction

Literary studies and the cognitive sciences, pursuing common interests in language, mental acts, and linguistic artifacts, have developed markedly different approaches to similar phenomena of reading, imaginative involvement, and textual patterning. Until quite recently, the distance between them has drawn more attention than their possible convergence (Franchi and Güzeldere ). A number of ...

Drawing on Bakhtin and Goffman: Toward an Epistemology that Makes Lived Experience Visible

This article seeks to enrich qualitative analysis by way of showing how Erving GOFFMAN's work can be enhanced by interfacing it with Mikhail BAKHTIN. The goal is to inspire an approach to the interpretation of human action that highlights phenomenologically immediate experience, thereby enhancing current work. BAKHTIN's later work focused on the interpretation of such experience but it was left...