{"title":"How Memories Become Literature","authors":"Lisa Zunshine","doi":"10.1353/sub.2022.0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes, as its starting point, embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several manuscripts of Christa Wolf’s autobiographical novel, Patterns of Childhood (Kindheitsmuster, 1976), available at the Berlin Academy of Arts. The author shows that later versions of Patterns of Childhood have more complex embedments in the chapter describing the adolescent protagonist’s relationship with her schoolteacher. This textual development is integral to the process whereby the presumably authentic memories of the past are constructed to fit the present needs of the person who is doing the remembering. Accompanying the three case studies of the manuscript revision is a discussion of theoretical and practical implications of this “cognitive-archival” approach to literature.","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SUB-STANCE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2022.0029","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes, as its starting point, embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several manuscripts of Christa Wolf’s autobiographical novel, Patterns of Childhood (Kindheitsmuster, 1976), available at the Berlin Academy of Arts. The author shows that later versions of Patterns of Childhood have more complex embedments in the chapter describing the adolescent protagonist’s relationship with her schoolteacher. This textual development is integral to the process whereby the presumably authentic memories of the past are constructed to fit the present needs of the person who is doing the remembering. Accompanying the three case studies of the manuscript revision is a discussion of theoretical and practical implications of this “cognitive-archival” approach to literature.
摘要：认知科学可以帮助文学学者提出档案研究需要回答的具体问题。本文以嵌入的心理状态（即关于心理状态的心理状态）及其在文学主体性生成中的作用为切入点。随后，在柏林艺术学院（Berlin Academy of Arts）出版的克里斯塔·沃尔夫（Christa Wolf）的自传体小说《童年的模式》（Kindheitsmust，1976）的几份手稿中，它追踪了嵌入的精神状态的转变。作者表明，《童年模式》的后期版本在描述青少年主人公与老师关系的章节中有更复杂的嵌入。这种文本发展是构建过去真实记忆的过程中不可或缺的一部分，以满足记忆者的当前需求。伴随着手稿修订的三个案例研究，我们讨论了这种“认知档案”文学方法的理论和实践意义。
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SubStance has a long-standing reputation for publishing innovative work on literature and culture. While its main focus has been on French literature and continental theory, the journal is known for its openness to original thinking in all the discourses that interact with literature, including philosophy, natural and social sciences, and the arts. Join the discerning readers of SubStance who enjoy crossing borders and challenging limits.
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