Literature and Psychology
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The Feeling of Beauty: Aesthetic Perception, Judgment and Literary Cognition. Nikki Skillman, Harvard University
In this paper I address ways in which accounts of aesthetic perception based on processing fluency can illuminate aspects of aesthetic judgment described by verbal artists, exploring the association of beauty with truth, beauty’s phenomenology of novelty, and the forms of pleasure associated with literary metaphor.
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Pushing Thirty: Young Adults in Developmental Psychology and Contemporary American Fiction. Anita Wohlmann, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
The proposal investigates the connections between the literary representations of young in contemporary American fiction and the life course models used in developmental psychology to explain processes of maturity and adulthood by examining recurring motifs and narrative patterns.
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Culture and Cognition: Helping Students Re-Boot the Human Hard Drive when Examining Ethnic Literature. Rachel Key, Grayson County College
The session will examine the way in which cognitive theory -- particularly in relation to narrative -- can help students better comprehend texts in Ethnic Literature courses. (Emphasis on Latin American and Native American literature).
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