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Cognitive Fictions
Joseph Tabbi
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Description for Cognitive Fictions
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
The first comprehensive look at the effect of new technologies on contemporary American fiction
Bringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new "media ecology," Cognitive Fictions limns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial environment partly produced and thoroughly mediated by technological means. Joseph Tabbi provides a penetrating account of a developing consciousness emerging from the struggle between print and electronic systems of communication.
Central to Tabbi’s work is the relation between the arrangement of communicating "modules" that cognitive science uses to describe the human mind and the arrangement of visual, verbal, and ... Read moreThe first close reading of contemporary American writing in the light of systems theory and cognitive science, Cognitive Fictions makes needed sense of how the moment-by-moment operations of human thought find narrative form in a world increasingly defined by competing and often incompatible representations. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Electronic Mediations
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816635573
SKU
V9780816635573
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About Joseph Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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