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Challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. This book sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.

Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.

Sets out through close analysis to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films.

Stories people admire follow a limited number of patterns determined by ideas about emotion.

From the rise of Nazism to the conflict in Kashmir in 2008, nationalism has been one of the most potent forces in modern history. Yet the motivational power of nationalism is still not well understood. In "Understanding Nationalism: " On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity, " Patrick Colm Hogan begins with empirical research on the cognitive psychology of group relations to isolate varieties of identification, arguing that other treatme...

The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film studies. This is an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature. Hogan suggests how the human brain works and makes us feel in response to literature. He walks the reader through all of the major theories of cogni...