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Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature : Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness
multi chapter work
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'This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high profile writers, literary hoaxes and controversies, book culture, LGBTIQA+ authors, to name a few. It eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in the first single-author volume of its kind. It takes Australian Literary Studies into the age of neuroawareness and provides new pathways in contemporary criticism.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
INTRODUCTION: GOING THE EXTRA SCHOLARLY MILE
PART I: COGNITION AND LITERARY CULTURE
1 Up for a Cha(lle)nge? A Case for Cognitive Australian Literary Studies
2 Do Judge a Book by Its Cover! Attraction and Attachment in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
PART II: COGNITION AND THE MIND
3 Gazing Inward and Outward: (Trans)Formation in C.J.Koch’s Bildungsroman Protagonist and Readers
4 Australian High-Functioning ASD Fiction in the Age of Neurodiversity: Graeme Simsion’s Rosie Trilogy
PART III: COGNITION AND THE BODY
5 The Erotics of Writing and Reading Australian Novels: Linda Jaivin, Frank Moorhouse and John Purcell’s Art of Dealing with Dirt
6 Brains in Pain and Coping Bodies: Trauma, Scars, Wounds, and the Mind-Body Relationship in Western Australia Aboriginal Literature
PART IV: COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
7 Angry Gay Men: Rage, Race and Reward in Contemporary Australian Advocacy Fiction
8 No Time for Outrage? The Demidenko Affair: Literary Representations, Criticism and Moral Emotions in The Hand That Signed the Paper
