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Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow?
- Author(s):
- Lisa Zunshine (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English, LLC Russian and Eurasian, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Literature, Ethnology, Philosophy of mind, Comparative literature, Cognitive science
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- opacity doctrine, novel, performance genres, Cultural studies, Literary theory, Cognitive science, Ethnography, Theory of mind
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/j12c-ev31
- Abstract:
- This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the author compares cultural practices originating in communities in which people think but do not talk publicly about others’ internal states, to those originating in communities in which people both think and talk about them, indeed, in which public speculation about other people’s intentions is (mostly) rewarded.
- Notes:
- This essay appeared in the special issue of Poetics Today, "Cognitive Approaches to Comparative Literature." For more information, visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/issue/41/2
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 9 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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