Terence Cave, Live Artefacts. Literature in a Cognitive Environment, Oxford University Press, 2022

Presentation

This book :

*Places literary study in relation to cognitive anthropology and archaeology
Considers literary utterances as cognitive artefacts
*Explores the properties that literary utterances share with living creatures
Reads literary works in relation to a view of language as an embodied and situated practice
*Re-describes in cognitive terms features of literature such as conservation and adaptation, reflective stance, intention, agency, and literary form in general
*Offers close readings of a wide range of texts--poems, narrative, and dramatic works--across a spectrum that includes popular genres and the media

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