Ellen Spolsky: 2 books
Contracts of Fiction
Cognition, Culture, Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships...
The Work of Fiction
Cognition, Culture, and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant...