will be sponsoring an
international conference on
By investigating
the work of fiction, we investigate both its purposes and its processes. What work does it do, and how does it
do it? What cognitive abilities
does it mobilize, like or unlike other kinds of cognition? What can we learn by approaching these
questions from a neurological, a computational, an evolutionary, a pedagogical,
or a historical/ cultural level?
We are particularly
interested, at this conference, to explore texts at the high end of the scale
of either formal or philosophical complexity, on the assumption that these are
the fictions that provide the greatest challenge to the cognitive/ theoretical
description of fictions it is our aim to produce.
Inquiries to Ellen Spolsky
For information and
program details
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/culture/WoF
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