@book {kukkonen_4e_2019, title = {4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found its Feet}, year = {2019}, note = {Google-Books-ID: Dx6DDwAAQBAJ}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, abstract = {When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in Eliza Haywood{\textquoteright}s flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox{\textquoteright}s work as a cultural broker between Britain and France, Sarah Fielding{\textquoteright}s experimental novels, and Frances Burney{\textquoteright}s practice of life-writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors who are often written out of the history of the genre are here foregrounded in a critical account that emphasizes the importance of engaging readers{\textquoteright} minds and bodies, and which invites us to revisit our understanding of the rise of the modern novel. Kukkonen{\textquoteright}s innovative theoretical approach is based on the approach of 4E cognition, which views thinking as profoundly embodied and embedded in social and material contexts, extending into technologies and material devices (such as a pen), and enactive in the inherent links between perceiving the world and moving around in it. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction investigates the eighteenth-century novel through each of these trajectories and shows how language explores its embodied dimension by increasing the descriptions of inner perception, or the bodily gestures around spoken dialogue. The embodied dimension is then related to the media ecologies of letter-writing, book learning, and theatricality. As the novel feeds off and into these social and material contexts, it comes into its own as a lifeworld technology that might not answer to standards of nineteenth-century realism but that feels {\textquoteright}real{\textquoteright} because it is integrated into the lifeworld and embodied experiences. 4E cognition answers one of the central challenges to cognitive literary studies: how to integrate historical and cultural contexts into cognitive approaches.}, keywords = {Language Arts \& Disciplines / Alphabets \& Writing Systems, Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century, Literary Criticism / Renaissance, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology \& Cognition}, isbn = {978-0-19-091306-9}, author = {Kukkonen, Karin} } @article {kukkonen_curse_2018, title = {The Curse of Realism: Cognitive Narratology and the Historical Dimension}, journal = {Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas}, volume = {16}, number = {2}, year = {2018}, month = {jun}, pages = {291{\textendash}302}, abstract = {ARRAY(0x56186884eb28)}, issn = {1936-9247}, doi = {10.1353/pan.2018.0020}, url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/696176}, author = {Kukkonen, Karin} } @article {kukkonen_fictionality_2018, title = {Fictionality}, journal = {Poetics Today}, volume = {39}, number = {3}, year = {2018}, month = {sep}, pages = {473{\textendash}494}, issn = {0333-5372, 1527-5507}, doi = {10.1215/03335372-7032704}, url = {https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/article/39/3/473/135625/FictionalityCognition-and-Exceptionality}, author = {Kukkonen, Karin and Nielsen, Henrik Skov} } @article {481, title = {Introduction: ENN5 special issue of Frontiers of Narrative Studies}, journal = {Frontiers of Narrative Studies}, volume = {4}, year = {2018}, month = {2018///}, pages = {s1 - s4}, isbn = {2509-4882}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fns.2018.4.issue-s1/fns-2018-0040/fns-2018-0040.xml?format=INT}, author = {Iversen, Stefan and Kukkonen, Karin and Martens, Gunther} } @book {kukkonen_prehistory_2017, title = {A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel}, year = {2017}, note = {Google-Books-ID: uOMwDgAAQBAJ}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, abstract = {This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind. Three key rules of neoclassicism, namely, poetic justice (the rewards and punishments of characters in the plot), the unities (the coherence of the fictional world and its extensions through the imagination) and decorum (the inferential connections between characters and their likely actions), are reconsidered in light of social cognition, embodied cognition and probabilistic, predictive cognition. The meeting between neoclassical criticism and today{\textquoteright}s research psychology, neurology and philosophy of mind yields a new perspective for cognitive literary study. Neoclassicism has a crucial contribution to make to current debates around the role of literature in cultural and cognition. Literary critics writing at the time of the scientific revolution developed a perspective on literature the question of how literature engages minds and bodies as its central concern. A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics traces the cognitive dimension of these critical debates in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and puts them into conversation with today{\textquoteright}s cognitive approaches to literature. Neoclassical theory is then connected to the praxis of eighteenth-century writers in a series of case studies that trace how these principles shaped the emerging narrative form of the novel. The continuing relevance of neoclassicism also shows itself in the rise of the novel, as A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics illustrates through examples including Pamela, Tom Jones and the Gothic novel.}, keywords = {Irish, Literary Criticism / European / English, Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century, Scottish, Welsh}, isbn = {978-0-19-065451-1}, author = {Kukkonen, Karin} }