• Cognitives Approaches to Literature: An MLA Discussion Group (6/98)
• Literature and the Cognitive Revolution: Rationale for the MLA Forum (4/98)

Societies and Resources

• MLA Discussion Group for Cognitive Approaches to Literature
  
• International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL) (external)
  
• The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (external; information on journal and activities)
• Literary Universals Project (external; University of Palermo, Italy)
  
  
• CogLit: a discussion group applying cognitive linguistic research to literature
  
• CogSci-Hum: a discussion group on cognitive science and the humanities, listserv@listserv.uh.edu
  
• CSL-L: a discussion group on cognitive science and literature, listserv@listserv.ucla.edu
  
  
• Stanford Humanities Lab (01/05)
  
• Journal of Cognition and Culture (external, 01/01)
• Journal of
  
• Science Studies and Complexity Theory (external; Jen Boyle at UCI)
  

• CogWeb's Early Modern Cultural Studies (7/99)
  
• CogWeb's Discursive Modes, especially Proverb Resources (7/99)
• See also related links

• Roll the Bones: Research, Reflections, and Speculation concerned with Risk, Play, and Chance (4/05)
  

Conferences (these links open a new window)

Cognitive Literary Studies

see also main bibliography

• Abbott, Porter
• The Evolutionary Origins of the Storied Mind (10/00)
• What do we mean when we say ‘Narrative Literature’? (7/00)
• Beckett’s Lawlessness: Evolutionary Psychology and Genre (8/99)
• Narrative and the Evolution of Intelligence (4/98)

• Carroll, Joseph
  
• Darwinian Literary Studies site (2004)
• Literary Darwinism reviewed by Tim Horvath (2005)
  
  
• Crane, Mary
  • Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (external, 7/00)
• Literary Studies and Cognitive Science: Towards a New Interdisciplinarity. With Alan Richardson (external, 1999)
• See Literature, Cognition, and the Brain for an extensive list of recent work

• Herman, David
• Scripts, sequences, and stories: elements of a postclassical narratology (1997)
• Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence (1996)
• Autobiography, allegory, and the construction of self (1995)
• The Mutt and Jute dialogue in Finnegans Wake: Some Gricean Perspectives
 (1994)
• Textual 'You' and double deixis in Edna O'Brien's "A Pagan Place" (1994)

• Hernadi, Paul
• Why is Literature: A Co-Evolutionary Perspective on Imaginative Worldmaking (forthcoming)
• Literature and Evolution (2001)
• The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia (with Francis Steen, 1999)
• Why Is Literature: The Interplay of Belief, Feeling, and Desire (1998)
• Cultural Transactions: Nature, Self, Society (1995)
• Interpreting Events: Tragicomedies of History on the Modern Stage (1985)
• Entertaining Commitments: A Reception Theory of Literary Genres (1981)
• Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification (1972

• Hogan, Patrick Colm
• Ethnocentrism and the very idea of literary theory (1996)
• The possibility of aesthetics (1994)
• Toward a cognitive science of poetics: Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, and the theory of literature (1996)
• Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature (2000)

• Jahn, Manfred
  • Stanley Fish and the Constructivist Basis of Postclassical Narratology (1999, external)
  • Windows of Focalization: Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Narratological Concept

• Miall, David
• An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Reading: Theory and Preditions (1998)
• The Form of Reading: Empirical Studies of Literariness (1998). With Dan Kuiken.
• The Body in Literature: Mark Johnson, Metaphor, and Feeling (1997)
• Full list of online essays (external)

• Richardson, Alan (see also Mary Crane, above)
  • Rethinking Romantic Incest: Human Universals, Literary Representation, and the Biology of Mind (forthcoming)
  • See Literature, Cognition, and the Brain for an extensive list of recent work

• Scarry, Elaine
• Dreaming by the Book (2000). Reviewed by James Hood (external).

• Spolsky, Ellen
• Cognitive Universals and Historical Change (3/98)
• Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind (1993)
• Iconotropisms. Presentation of a book project (1997) (external)

• States, Bert
• Seeing in the Dark: Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming (1997). From the reviews.

• Steen, Francis
• Recent papers (request password)
• Grasping Philosophy by the Roots. Review of Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh (4/00)
• Implicit Pedagogy: From Chase Play to Collaborative Worldmaking (with Stephanie Owens, 3/00)
• The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia (with Paul Hernadi, 1999)
• The Time of Unrememberable Being: Wordsworth's Autobiography of the Imagination (1998)
• Evolved Benevolence: Hutcheson and the Moral Engines of Community (12/97)

• Tsur, Reuven
• Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics. Reviewed by Beth Bradburn (external)
• The Cognitive Poetics Project (an extensive collection of papers)

• Turner, Mark
• The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science, An Update (3/98)
• The Literary Mind (1996). Reviews and exerpts (external)
• Review of Talmy's Toward a Cognitive Semantics (external, 11/01)
• See Conceptual Blending site for an extensive list of recent work (external)

Cognitive Cultural Studies (links to details and abstract; cf. also main bibliography)

• Anderson, Joseph D.
• Joseph D. Anderson. The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Reviewed by Harold Hatt (external).

• Boyer, Pascal
• Cognitive limits to conceptual relativity: The limiting-case of religious ontologies (1996)
• Causal understandings in cultural representations: Cognitive constraints on inferences from cultural input (1995)
• The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (1994)
• Cognitive constraints on cultural representations: Natural ontologies and religious ideas (1994)

• DiMaggio, Paul
• Culture and Cognition (1997) (see also Bibliography of Evolutionary Approaches to Sociology)

• Dissanayake, Ellen
• Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (1992)
• What Is Art For? (1988)
• Does Art Have Selective Value? (1984)

• Donald, Merlin
• The mind considered from a historical perspective: Human cognitive phylogenesis and the possibility of continuing cognitive evolution (1997)
• The neurobiology of human consciousness: An evolutionary approach (1995)
• Origins of the modern mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (1991)

• Harnad, Stevan
• Interactive Cognition: Exploring the Potential of Electronic Quote/Commenting (1995)

• McIntosh, Janet
• Cognition and Power (11/97)

• Mithen, Steven.
• The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (1996). Howard Gardner's review.

• Sperber, Dan
• Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach (1996). Author's presentation.
• Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory (with Deirdre Wilson) (1996)
• Relevance: Communication and cognition (with Deirdre Wilson) (1995)
• Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate (coedited conference) (1995)
• The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations (1994)
• Understanding verbal understanding(1994)
• Learning without teaching: Its place in culture (with Scott Atran) (1991)
• The epidemiology of beliefs (1990)
• Representation and relevance (with Deirdre Wilson) (1988)
• Precis of Relevance: Communication and cognition (1987)
• Salvaging parts of the "classical theory" of categorization (1986)
• Test of the mention theory of irony (with Jorgensen and Miller) (1984)
• Pragmatics (with Deirdre Wilson) (1981)

• Steen, Francis
  • Evolution's Pedagogy: An Adaptationist Model of Pretense and Entertainment, with Stephanie Owens (forthcoming 2001)
  • Grasping Philosophy by the Roots. A review of Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh (2000)
  • Recent papers (request password)

• Leonard Talmy,
  • The Cognitive Culture System. Monist 78 (1995): 80-114. Abstract.