Cognitive Foundations of Ethical Literary Studies

IF 0.4 0 LITERATURE Acta Neophilologica Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI:10.4312/an.56.1-2.75-89
Igor Žunkovič
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In the 1980s and 1990s, an ethical turn began to take place in literary studies and in the humanities in general, leading to an increased interest in exploring the relationship between literature and ethics. The field that deals with this topic is now called ethical literary studies or ethical criticism. One of the less explored areas of ethical literary studies is the relationship between ethics and cognitive aspects of reading. In this article, I therefore analyse the neurobiological foundations of literary reading. I consider reading as a technology consisting of various embodied mental, emotional, motor, sensory, memory and other cognitive processes. The temporal and spatial dimension of the processes, which I also call “openness”, is particularly important. The latter conditions the diversity of reading on an experiential level and, finally, the possibilities of the relationship between literature and ethics, namely in relation to literary characters, narratives, implicit and real authors and readers.
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伦理文学研究的认知基础
在20世纪80年代和90年代,文学研究和人文学科开始出现伦理转向,人们对探索文学与伦理之间的关系越来越感兴趣。处理这个话题的领域现在被称为伦理文学研究或伦理批评。伦理文学研究中较少探索的领域之一是伦理与阅读认知方面的关系。因此,本文分析了文学阅读的神经生物学基础。我认为阅读是一种由各种具体的心理、情感、运动、感觉、记忆和其他认知过程组成的技术。这个过程的时间和空间维度,我也称之为“开放性”,是特别重要的。后者在体验层面上决定了阅读的多样性,最后决定了文学与伦理关系的可能性,即与文学人物、叙事、隐含的和真实的作者和读者的关系。
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期刊介绍: The scientific journal Acta Neophilologica is the review of Slovenian experts in English-speaking, German-speaking and French- and Italian-speaking literary historians that publishes scientific studies of international and domestic scientists in the field of Western-European, American and other literatures in English. The journal pays special attention to the problems from the history of cultural and especially literary and theatre contacts between Slovenia and Western-European literatures, as well as the problems of Slovenian emigrant literature. The articles are published in the world language (English, German, French, Italian) the literature of which the author analyzes, the abstracts are written in a foreign language and the summaries in the Slovenian language.
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