Beschreibung:
This volume shows how Kafka evokes vision and emotion as fundamentally enactive, and how this makes his writing "cognitively realistic" in this respect. Cognitive realism is introduced as a framework for exploring how fictional characters' cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities, and how this may affect real readers.
Introduction: Cognitive Realism, Kafka, and Literary Theory 1. Perception without Pictures 2. Re-Envisioning the Imagination 3. Kafka's Poetics of Perception in Der Proceß 4.Feeling From New Perspectives Conclusion: Cognitive Realism in Kafka and Beyond